New site layout - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 04:33:03 pm
content: Just to say, what a hell is that?Tons of white(and black) space!Does the top bar really needs to be always there using almost 1/4 of the screen just to have Sugest, Help, Episodes in it?And I have to click to see the list of topics that you talk about, really?And that huge logo on the right, could be a bit smaller, and can only read one commentary a time, white space everywhere, for someone so nit-picky about everything that site layout is total BS

author: ChrisGammell
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 04:45:37 pm
content: Starting the year year out right with some constructive criticism, eh? If you have suggestions on what you'd rather see, feel free to suggest them. But since you made this comment here instead on on the post we have about the new site, I'm going to assume you don't visit it that often.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 06:26:18 pm
content: Quote from: ChrisGammell on January 01, 2014, 04:45:37 pmVery professional way to handle criticism ...I just had a quick look at the site and I have to say senso is right. It doesn't look great. And it doesn't behave well, esp. on wides screens/windows, but also on on rather small windows. It wastes a lot of space on top, and on the right (for wide windows). It uses a "porn-site dark" background theme. It has a lot of social junk. Fonts look too thin. Too tight integration with googleusercontent (for the fonts?), giving google even more opportunities to track users. The detailed contents descriptions of the episodes are hidden, there is no clear visual/textual hint (like "more ...") indicating where to find the rest (behind the title link ...). The contrast of the link color compared to the white text background is bad. Etc.Ok, it follows the modern paradigm of having a fixed-width main content-area. Which is, see above, a pain for people using wide screens.I hope you didn't pay that much for this layout.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 06:33:18 pm
content: Quote from: ChrisGammell on January 01, 2014, 04:45:37 pm.......Quote from: senso on January 01, 2014, 04:33:03 pmThose look like suggestions to me!IMHO, the old version was utilitarian in a good, engineer-friendly way. This version, to put it somewhat bluntly, looks like a graphic designer farted on it...

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 06:50:26 pm
content: I agree with most of what senso said, especially regarding the quality of the font (thin, dark gray, weak rendering).Why do i have to scroll so much when there's so much empty, dead space?At least the last post should be more than a single paragraph on the first page, if not the full post. After all, the show is weekly so it's not like content gets added daily.As for posts themselves... see picture... i've highlighted the actual useful content by making it negative:

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 12:04:37 am
content: Well, I visit the site every week, been listening to the amp-hour since episode 80 or 90, and got a couple friends hooked up to it.For my little 1366x768 screen, its a LOT of wasted space, are you going after the HaD style?It was a one click job, a nice list of links for the relevant topics, why change what was a very functional layout?I decided to open a topic here because the discussion is a bit more organized than over the comment system on the site(dont get me wrong).

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 12:26:09 am
content: Should I even dare think about changing my ancient EEVblog.com wordpress template?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 01:34:21 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on January 02, 2014, 01:25:13 amI wouldn't do it just because I can. It's been on my to-do list for a long time. There are quite a few annoying limitations with my current template.

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 01:40:44 am
content: Have to agree with most of the comments above - and never put links on the far right hand side unless you really don't want everyone to see them.

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 02:04:39 am
content: Holy cow (or yak), that font is hueg, you could read it from across the room! Make it smaller, and align it more top right, inline wiht the comments tab.Automatically expand the most recent post.Clamp down on the unnecessary spacing. White space is good, wasted space is bad.The logo on the right is good, but i think too much of a sacrifice is made to accommodate it, possibly move the menu on the left side, vertically, rather than top, horizontally, and move the content box over to make up.https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/677635/TAHWS.jpg

author: cidcorp
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 04, 2014, 03:51:09 am
content: <hesitantly raises hand in the air>I liked the change....I always view from a desktop, and I liked the layout.Chris

author: liquibyte
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2014, 04:12:02 am
content: I don't do the *tube videos because I find the trend disturbing and intrusive of my time. I'm not saying that others shouldn't, just that I don't. I prefer to read my content slurps.You guys do what you will with your sites but I want to show you how I see things. Stop using javascript to serve content dammit, that's just annoying and unnecessary.It's like the big flash bandwagon of the last decade and it's annoying to the users that don't like to be tracked. Wordpress in my opinion is a overbloated solution to a problem that didn't exist. It was supposed to make it easy to "blog" but it just ends up being a maintenance nightmare.This is what I see by default because I choose to not let the scripts through. First party until I see that I can't use (or abandon) the site without it, and third party always unless I specifically want to give the site owner clickthrough. I've done this for Dave specifically but no one else on the net so far.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 06, 2014, 06:37:09 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on January 06, 2014, 06:04:37 amHave you tried clicking the episodes link at the top?Quote from: wilfred on January 06, 2014, 06:04:37 amhttps://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jeri+site:http://www.theamphour.com

author: owiecc
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 06, 2014, 09:09:59 am
content: In my opinion the new layout is much better than the old one. Font rendering looks superb on a high ppi screen (iPad). Possibly lower ppi displays will have problems with this font. The layout is responsive to tablet orientation. Everything is clear. Really nice design.The only thing I do not like is the fixed header in horizontal orientation. On tablets with 16:9 display and with smaller screen diameters the header will take considerable ammount of space.

author: Matt_Heilman
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 09, 2014, 11:16:09 pm
content: Is there an issue with the show notes? as that is the reason why I visit the site while I listen.

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 09, 2014, 11:53:01 pm
content: Quote from: Matt_Heilman on January 09, 2014, 11:16:09 pmClick on the show title.Probably a huge task but a single index of all the show notes ever would be a great way to search for a particular topic. On the other hand I could just create/keep my own bookmarked topics of interest

author: jonwilhelmjr
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2014, 07:43:59 am
content: Any chance can make a tab dedicated to books and go to reading material. I imagine a large portion of the books would be from forest mims but it seems every guest star has a book, I would rather browse a page of books then few hundred links in the show notes. Love the show guys keep up the great work.

author: electr_peter
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 11, 2014, 11:39:52 am
content: I have few reservations about new layout.1) I would suggest to make screen wider (too much empty space from the sides)2) I would suggest to make screen taller (remove that black bar on the top or make it narrower)3) I would suggest to change font of text used in this page. I had to turn Javascript off just to make text more readable!!! (without JS - font similar to Times New Roman or basic ASCII; with JS - some weird big and rounded letters, very annoying). I use Firefox 28.0Otherwise, please keep podcasting.

author: Rigby
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 11, 2014, 12:59:37 pm
content: I like the new design. The site isn't super heavy on content, so layout & design have a bit of room to play.