[iSunfish]

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I'm still missing MacCentral, the url of which I still use to connect to your site.

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And it will continue to point to the Macworld homepage.
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IMO, this is a mistake. MacCentral.com should point to the NEWS page. In the current site design, the Macworld.com and the News page appear to be one and the same. That wasn't what I got at all in visiting the beta site. I immediately went hunting for the page that put the news front and center, as it is in the current design.
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[iSunfish]

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And it may be an illusion because of the shorter lines, but you seem to be using fewer words in the headlines, making it harder for me to know if I want to read a story in the first place, so you're making the most important feature on the site both harder to access and less informational. And the two columns of stories are inherently less visually organized.

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I forgot to comment on this in my previous posts. I intensely dislike the two column headlines. It confirms to me that you know you need to get more headlines near the top of the page; however, instead of actually moving the headlines up the page (and eliminating some ads or moving them down the page), you've squashed them together to get as many immediately below the fold as possible (viewable with one press of the page down key). Using fewer words enables you to compress more headlines into a smaller space. All of this is anathema to me.
Move the headlines up; make them bold; use enough words to accurately convey the content of the story: Save the reader's time.
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[Blue Crisp]

Preface: logging-in to comment on articles - is it strictly necessary?
Congratulations on moving! It is a very promising venture and I like the more modern colours.
Unfortunately I find the layout of your front page both confusing and cluttered. It is also lamentable that you have had to sell your souls in terms of intrusive advertising, however I'm hardly naïf when it comes to the reasoning. I was more amenable to the former advertising model you had - it was large enough to be noticed without being garish and intrusive. I don't think that more pictures and colours make it a better site at the expense of the hard graft which is writing articles and blogging. I find the site's former strengths diluted and the presentation much less suited to adults of independent intellect who chose the Mac route and stripped of the elegance which symbolises our platform. The advertising layout cheapens the site terribly and shows that the sphere of Mac business, being one of the last bastions of traditional American competitive quality, is slowly descending into the base-price spiral, at any cost to its values. I'm sorry to be so harsh and it doesn't lessen my indebtedness to you over the years in learning so much from your well-written articles. I think however I also have to bid farewell to this site. Good luck!