The BWW Re-Design
The BWW Re-Design
#1The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:19pmRob et al, I really like the new look! The B&W makes it look much more classier.
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#2The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:21pmI 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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#2The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:23pmI'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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#3The 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!
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#4The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:37pmLooks great! Love it. Very classy.
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#5The 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
#6The 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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#7The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 5:49pmSometimes I'm disappointed (even aggravated) by re-designed sites, but this one is excellent! Well done!
#9The 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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#10The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 6:27pmMy biggest problem with BWW has always been the design. Everything looked too chaotic. I'm liking it!
#11The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 7:03pmLOVE 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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#12The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 8:14pm
VERY nice!
I likey!
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#13The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:01pmTotally agree in terms of the videos, and the classiness!
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#14The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:09pmLove it as well, but the imbedded video ads that run unprompted are seriously annoying.
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#15The 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
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#16The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:14pmThumbs up, for sure!
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#17The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:15pm
Thumbs Up!
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#18The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:15pmOne kept coming back up in the rotation last night, to the point where I just shut off the sound.
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#19The 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.
#20The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/24/11 at 10:19pmThe 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.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
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#21The 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!
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#22The 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.
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#23The 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
#24The BWW Re-Design
Posted: 7/26/11 at 10:39amI'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?
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