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What is this infernal fixation on fixed width designs? HELLO! I have a monitor the size of Rhode Island. I'd like to be able to use the whole damn thing. On ONE page. Your old site was great! It was one I always cited when complaining about other sites moving from variable width to fixed. *sigh*
At least Slashdot hasn't gotten the fixed width bug up their ass. They learned their lesson on that years ago.
Oh, and what's up with the front page layout? Do you have enough columns? Let's see, there's the Latest Headlines column. The Latest Features Column. The RSS column (FileShack/ShackReviews/HardOCP/TechReport/BoardGameGeek stuff). Then there's the "News By Category" column, including what seems to be fairly arbitrary groupings. Then the "Hot News" box. How this differs from the Latest Headlines column, I'm not entirely sure. Then there's the "Interesting Comments" box...taking approximately six times the space the former element used. Then there's the "Recent News" column, and then there's another box next to it with another couple dozen links.
So, you have SIX separate sections devoted towards presenting the same content in half a dozen different ways taking approximately eighty-five percent of the front page. Which, by the way, on my monitor-the-size-of-Rhode-Island, the front page takes approximately six and a half pages of screen real estate. On top of that, there's no information on the main page. All that screen real estate is simply used to give you a multitude of links to the same place without actually including their content on the page. You have to navigate to other pages to view the content you've selected. The old front page is just as large, but it displays MORE information than the new front page given that full articles are reproduced on the front page, instead of just the first paragraph or two. What was the genesis of this design decision? There's so much redundancy in the page design that there are two to three links to every item. Does the front page really need to be that large, that cumbersome, and that empty of information?
I'll pay real USD money to anyone who builds a Stylish CSS to port the new content into the old layout.
I'm not kidding.
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