The BWW Re-Design

#1

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:19pm

Rob et al, I really like the new look! The B&W makes it look much more classier.

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#2

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:21pm

I like it a lot, too. It loads faster, for one thing. And the aesthetics are much better. I wish the message area (center column) was bit wider, but that's it.

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#3

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:23pm

I'm also IN LOVE with how the videos on the upper right-hand corner now scroll with an option to go back. Many times in the old design I wouldn't get to click on a video in time and it would scroll away, causing me to have to go and try to find it (which I was not always successful in doing). Kudos!

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

#4

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:24pm

Thanks, I've got a few hours and a lots of little bits to go, but we're looking to have the pages loading nearly twice as fast along with the visual updates, and the easier ability to add some new features over the coming weeks... If you have any problems, or notice anything particularly wonderful or horrible - please send me a quick PM or email.

Back to work!
R

#5

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:37pm

Looks great! Love it. Very classy.

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#6

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:39pm

I like it, but the entire right side doesn't align properly. (I'm using Firefox 3.6 on a Mac.)

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Updated On: 7/24/11 at 05:39 PM

#7

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:49pm

"Many times in the old design I wouldn't get to click on a video in time and it would scroll away, causing me to have to go and try to find it"

Yeah, that was annoying! I don't know why they changed it. You used to be able to scroll back before, but for whatever reason they dropped that option a year or so ago. Glad to see it back.

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#8

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:49pm

Sometimes I'm disappointed (even aggravated) by re-designed sites, but this one is excellent! Well done!

#9

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 6:25pm

Gorgeous! So much more attractive and speedy!

#10

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 6:26pm

I like the new video feature also. I hated having to wait for a video that caught my eye but I couldn't click on fast enough to come back!

It all looks good so far Rob.

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#11

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 6:27pm

My biggest problem with BWW has always been the design. Everything looked too chaotic. I'm liking it!

#12

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 7:03pm

LOVE LOVE LOVE it. What a great surprise to see this brand new site when I clicked on the bookmark! Now if we could just get an update for the iPhone app!

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#13

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 8:14pm

VERY nice!

I likey!

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#14

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:01pm

Totally agree in terms of the videos, and the classiness!

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#15

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:09pm

Love it as well, but the imbedded video ads that run unprompted are seriously annoying.

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#16

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:13pm

People keep talking about the video ads BWW has, but I have never seen a single one, and I am on this site multiple times every day (as I'm sure most of us are). I use both Firefox with adblock and Google Chrome, not one video, ever. I also never go directly to the main page of BWW, always to the board. If I need to go to the main page I click the icon in the upper left.

Now that I have said this I will probably be bombarded with them, but oh well.

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Updated On: 7/24/11 at 10:13 PM

#17

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:14pm

Thumbs up, for sure!

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#18

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:15pm

Thumbs Up!

User Friendly. User Friendly.
Easy on the Eyes.

#19

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:15pm

One kept coming back up in the rotation last night, to the point where I just shut off the sound.

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#20

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:18pm

WOAH what a surprise. So nice- love the navigation bar's text and such. .

A wonderful build. Woohoo!

And the BWW TV video scroller. . . . I will miss having to await that oneeee video to pass back through.

Seriously fantastic.

#21

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:19pm

The videos load with sound on? Wow! Most video ads on other sites at least have the courtesy to not have sound on when they load, but give the option to turn the sound on. The only exception I've seen are the ads shown before videos.

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#22

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:35pm

Thx for the kudos here and in my happily overflowing PM and inbox. These enhancements are just the first wave of a slew of summer upgrades. We were going to roll them all out at once, but just loved the visual and speed improvements so decided to push these out right away.

Auto sound video ads are definitely against our policies. If any creep through it's usually something gone wrong on one of the third party ad networks that we use for excess inventory. They are usually prettynfast about removing them when we yell, so if you catch anything ever before I do, please don't hesitate to PM or email me.

More to come!

#23

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/25/11 at 11:20am

Love the curvature of the earth pic at the top, so scientific.

The site is loading faster than the NY Times!

Still have some pages with the one inch blank margins to the sides but the main message board page is fixed.

#24

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/25/11 at 6:37pm

I wish the text part of the forum was wider. Half the space of the screen is taken up by ads/site links on either side of the forum. The text is this tiny column right in the middle.

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Updated On: 7/25/11 at 06:37 PM

#25

The BWW Re-Design

Posted: 7/26/11 at 10:39am

I'm not sure if it's the redesign or not, but I'm unable to log in and post from my phone now unless I go out of the mobile version and into the standard view (which is not great for iPhones). Is anyone else having this problem?