Welcome to the 2010 AnandTech Beta
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 29, 2010 11:52 PM EST- Posted in
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That old design lasted us a long time, didn't it? :) Welcome to the 2010 AnandTech Beta. We've done a lot of updating behind the scenes as well as (obviously) on the front end.
Most obvious is the brand new look and feel. For a site that reviews the latest and greatest tech, we can't get by looking like we're still living in 2004. Now when the 80s make a comeback we'll be on top of that, you've got my word.
We've ditched the left hand column, streamlined some of the ads and widened the content column. While each article will still give you a preview of 10 comments, we finally have an option to view all comments on each review page. Right now we've got this set to 50 comments per page but we'll be tweaking as need be. We're also cutting down on the number of page loads you'll encounter. In view all comments mode there's no page refreshing between comment pages. We'll be bringing this feature to more parts of the site in the future. User friendliness is our drug :)
The front page allows for both linking to our superlong articles as well as shorter stories that can just appear on the front page for quick scanning. By default the latest 5 articles will appear in the rotating carousel up top, but if something super interesting comes up we'll promote it up there (similar to what did on the old site). The expanded summaries on the front page will give you more insight into what it is we're talking about in the article before you ever click anything.
Tags are enabled but not in full effect just yet. We'll be beefing up search, comments (the return of ratings!), galleries, Bench, user profiles and site layout/color customization over the coming weeks. We're planning on this being a regularly updated thing so if you see anything that warrants our attention let us know.
It's not all about a pretty face though, we're still going to be publishing the content that you demand from us. If you haven't seen it, be sure to read Ryan's GeForce GTX 480 & GTX 470 Review. And I'm commemorating today with a new SSD article addressing one of the longest running questions you've been asking: how do SSDs perform in RAID?
As always, thank you for your support over the years and for reading the site. It's been a pleasure to be able to write for you all over the past 13 years. Thank you guys for giving me and all of us the opportunity to do just that. If you haven't been able to tell by now, I love writing this stuff - and you all make it possible.
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MrSpadge - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
Could you please separate the DailyTech news by date? So that when I return the next day I don't have to try to remember what I already saw yesterday and feel strange when I read some news a second time ;)araczynski - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
way too much dead space on the top, a waste.seniorherbal - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
The scrolling needed to find articles takes too much time. I wish Anandtech would keep the good functionality of the old layout which was to show more articles without much scrolling on the home and head pages. Then add the look of the new layout/design for eye candy. Thanks.SkyDiver - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
Hi,It seems harder to quickly see everything that is available. I don't like the pictures/articles thing that rotates at the top. It takes too long to see what is there.
Toms Hardware came off my set of home pages when they did something like this a few years ago. I'll have to see what happens with this one. Right now, it looks like Tom's packs more information into less space. I might put that page next to this one and see which one survives.
I don't have a lot of time. If it isn't efficient, I just won't come here as much.
apcordov - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
It looks great!deadzoned - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
I am a long time reader that has never registered. I like the new design so much that I registered so I could let you guys know.papapapapapapapababy - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
at all. it looks just like techspot now. in fact anad looks like all the other sites now. lameMumrik - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
Ditch the carousel at the top. I don't want to deal with that stuff, just show me a graphical overview like you used to.I'd also love to see the actual content column (the one the articles are in) widened. But maybe that's just me being tired of wasting around half of my 1920 horizontal pixels.
twindragon6 - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - link
I miss the printable view. Is this feature coming back at a latter date? Even if it is not used to kill trees, it is useful if I want to have the article available in an offline mode. Maybe a download this article in PDF function would be cool too.initialised - Friday, April 2, 2010 - link
I, like most of you readers mostly use widescreen. I have an extra half million pixels that aren't telling me something or distracting my eyes. I guess this will fill up with adds over time.