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Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Dan Roycroft — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:49:21 -0000

I was always a big fan of the one-page idea on VB and liked the fact I could load it up once and just read through it like a newspaper. Perhaps in the future you can consider some sort of personalized settings both in terms of what sections get displayed and how they are displayed.

Great content. Love the site.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

@brandlessons — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:32:31 -0000

Very clean and great sense of usability. Good job guys!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

@brandlessons — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:31:17 -0000

This is SO clean and concise. Great sense of usability. God job guys!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

mashable — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:24:04 -0000

I love this new design - it's incredibly hard to make a blog look this clean and simple. Congrats Matt and team!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Will Robertson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:59:26 -0000

Looks pretty nice! I like the minimal feel to it. Compared to a site like TechCrunch (which is crazy busy), this is nice and calm.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Marin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:23:41 -0000

Do like the redesign. I loved not having to click through, but this does make sense for the growing beats and the business. Good stuff overall though, very clean.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Ade — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:36:07 -0000

I don't care about not having enough to read. I'm just happy it loads faster. Funny cause anytime I'm on here I distract myself by looking at the status bar.

For non geeks like myself would you guys explain how you had the load problems and how you were able to solve it.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Ujjwal Gupta — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:17:04 -0000

I never had a problem, but again it just might be my internet connection. I loved complete posts on the front page. :-(

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

rohit — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:11:22 -0000

ah - a fresh design - much better (and faster it seems) -- pay attention to the jump points though --

and when's the iPhone (or Android or Palm) venturebeat reader coming? a la NYT reader - clean design, text-full on loading etc etc....

rohit

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Dirt — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:34:53 -0000

I preferred the old design. All the content on one page reduced clicking. But it does load faster now. Less convenient tho

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Karl M — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:00:29 -0000

Have to agree with previous posters - the snippets are too short now.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Matt Marshall — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:58:15 -0000

Great to see the majority of folks are happy with this. @Aaron, owe you a big thanks too for the advice. Appreciated!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

nickgonzalez — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:55:07 -0000

Looks nice Matt.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Matt Marshall — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:41:45 -0000

About bloody time! This site has loaded like a snail for years. Besides kudos to Nclud for design and implementation, got to say thanks too to Martin Goldman, who helped with server stuff. We'll have more to say about that experience later, once we monitor stuff.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Jacob Mullins — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:19:49 -0000

Congrats guys on the redesign, looks really GREAT!!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Aaron Brazell — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:16:53 -0000

Well done design. Nclud is an amazing shop and did great work. Let's talk this week about the Product Mgr stuff. Might have ideas.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Sam Whitmore — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:04:33 -0000

Loads like lightning, Matt!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

rkorba — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:54:23 -0000

Very clean -- but then, like the NYT blogs or (since they did some of this in more cluttered way) Techcrunch, *must* have previous and next post cues on full-text pages. Also, since VB is the zenith of real writing, let's not truncate at random points, but have the full lede before the jump? Kudos so far!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Ujjwal Gupta — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:25:17 -0000

I am on the boat with being able to scroll through everything without clicking. It was a hell lot easier to read everything and just ignore.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Ujjwal Gupta — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:23:47 -0000

I liked the previous design better, but that maybe just because I am so used to it. Specifically, I liked that the snippets for every blog were much longer so I didn't had to click on all.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Michael Richardson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:11:21 -0000

This is really nice. I have to admit I was sometimes confused, when 1/2 way down a scroll, whether I was on VentureBeat or TechCrunch: This is a nice differentiator, and nice improvement.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

nike — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:02:35 -0000

I prefer content on one page, I know that is old school but I am an information CONSUMER and sponge. I DO like the article abstracts, which makes it easier to pick through what I want to read at all. I continue to read VB mostly via a reader application, and that seems to remain the same. But in general, I don't like having to click around in page headers and "next page, next page" to get to more content.

Good thing is, it is the SAME GREAT CONTENT!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Matt Marshall — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:36:38 -0000

What did you like about previous format? The other big change which I didn't mention in the post is the move to article abstracts on the front page, instead of the full story. That's where we really can't please everyone. Some readers told us they didn't like having to scroll through long pages of full posts. Others like being able to scroll through everything without clicking through.

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

Merl — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:27:16 -0000

Looks good, nice job!

Re: Welcome to VentureBeat’s new design

nike — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:12:44 -0000

Well, I personally preferred the previous format, but all things change. Some for the better, some worse.