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IMO, the 5 picture-article boxes look out of place somehow.

 

Ehmmm, why is the text now blurry that uset to be sharp?

or the near unreadable, unsharp headers?


(hmmm, the links are busted too
http://forums.bit-tech.net/album.php?albumid=655&pictureid=9643
see "home" and "Hardware" thats unsharp
http://forums.bit-tech.net/album.php?albumid=655&pictureid=9644
see "gaming PC" thats unsharp

 

Quick heads up - I clicked "CustomPC" on the banner and I got page not found.

And for the whiners - you had plenty of time to sign up for the beta and voice your opinion then.

 

Whereas our new search is amazing! Thanks for giving it a bit of time though, change is always challenging

 

Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

It's as wide as ever, but as there are now three columns, every column is tiny...Help!

 

Jamie's official response:

"He's using IE6." followed by a shrug.

 

1. Fixed
2. Yup

 

Greetings!

Too much information in too small an area.
Also, the reviews/articles area is too small.

Sorry, but it failed to deliver a good first impression.

 

I agree it is busy, once I have used it for a bit I will see how I feel
Overall I like it, good job!

One thing though, there doesn't seem to be a way to get to the forums from the comments pages. I hate the comments pages (and always have) so like to just skip them. Now that doesn't seem possible.

edit: wait, hang on, there is a "discuss in forums" link at the bottom of this blog post, maybe it was just the farcry 2 article failing

 

There are some issues with the new site on my laptop here (Running Snow Leopard)

Firefox is maxing out the CPU pretty much more than I have ever seen on any site before (Even hi-def video). Swinging between 50% to 100% most of the time.

Safari does the same (With the usual slightly lower CPU) but it's the flash thread giving the CPU a thrashing.

 

LOL. Brilliant.

Oh and, this is now my new homepage. Good going guys.
I love the design.

 

Does that mean I'm allowed to whine, as I wasn't allowed in on the beta? Not that I intend to, it's all good except for a bit of aliased text here and there.

 

One thing I have noticed (forum-wise) - can we have the background a few shades darker (similar to how it was before) in the dark skin? It's a bit bright atm, and the contrast looks a bit odd.

 

The site is now far too narrow. It just looks like you've tried to cram as much as possible into the existing layout. Are the two side bars so precious for advertising that you can't extend the site into at least one of them?

 

So far, I think it looks good... nice job

 

will take some getting used to....

 

Is the picture of Joe on the staff page under NDA?

 

I said this in the Beta site, but I think the site is cluttered, but cluttered in a good way. It seems to take inspiration from large e-tailers and blogs. I can live with that. Oh, and it is *lightyears* ahead of the old site (that old dog needed to be put down asap).

A few things that I would like to see:

• Replace those 5 panes of content with a content slide-show (similar to Gamespot but not flash). IMO those 5 panes are the biggest culprits for the 'busy-ness'.
• Change the comments links to forum links. Nobody likes reading comments through the main site.
• Do something about the horrible flash ads. Yours are some of the worst I've seen, and it just encourages selfish pricks to use adblocker.

 

That's because we are a busy site

 

Why is more difficult to read the text now?
Is it becuase of the vast amount of black to the left and right of the content? or are you using a different font?.

Also comments seem to be broken as they only occupy the left 1/2 of the panel.. O wait, no, I see now, it is caused by the adverts on the right.. Mmmm, not great.