[Macworld]

Post your comments for Welcome to the new Macworld.com here

[Jason Snell]

Welcome, everybody. Let us know what you think and please understand we've got a whole lot more work to do to get everything here ship-shape. But at least we're back!

Onward.

[Atwood]

So glad to have you back! Very effective use of color, layout and fonts, an improvement on a site which needed freshening. Congratulations.

[DonC]

Jason,

While I like the new colors and button styles, I don't like the general apperance at all. A lot of wasted space, a lot of advertisement (either for articles on MacWorld, or adds from other sources). I did some comparison with the old and new design on a 23" Cinema Display: Old design: info gets about 30%, the rest is advertisement and wasted space. New design: 20% information. On a 15" MacBook Pro it is even worse: old: 20% information, new: 5% information. But information is why people come to your site.

Would you really go to a web site which gives you 95% advertisement and navigation ?

Unless things change I don't think you will see me regularily again on your web site.

Bye bye and have a good time.
Message was edited by: DonC, just changed some typos

[MCJ]

The new forum interface looks great.
I much prefer being able to preview my posts from the same page and not having to mess about with css tags. The new smileys look good too! :-)

And email notifications appear to have made a welcome return. :^0

[luckylindy]

Long-time Mac user (since '84) and long-time Macworld reader (since issue #1 with young Stevie on the cover). But I have found, for quite some time, that Macworld's home page was all over the place and, as a result, I never went there. Since Safari, I have used the RSS feed to the news summaries as my portal to Macworld. But that is all about to change.

The division of the site into Mac/iPod/iPhone is great. The User tabs based on reader votes is really useful. And the wider format is great. I like that the ads are keyed to the section--if you've always done this (by article?) it seems more prominent now than it did.

I plan on doing A LOT more exploring of the site--that has to be a major win for you guys to have a jaded site reader make such a comment.


Keep it up. best of luck.

[Ralph_Thornton]

I agree with DonC regarding ad space. The first thing I noticed is the larger ads. Story text seems more confined with ads taking up way too much screen real estate.

And will I have to logon each time I visit? There didn't seem to be a check box to log me on automatically.

[dwr50]

I still have a blank page icon in my bookmarks for Macworld, don't you have a logo icon? I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11.

[xmt0]

Great job MW folx on the new front page and community. Still trying to get my bearings, but love poking around to see what things do.

[MorrisTheCat]

Hi. Not so much a comment on the new look which, so far I kinda like, but on the fact that I was not able to sign in under my old account. I tried everything I could think of but kept getting denied entry. I'm pretty sure I know what email, name and password I had before, but I even tried all variations and combinations my brain could come up with and nothing has worked. So, I created a new account, which i didn't want to have to do.

Has anyone else experienced problems logging in to the new site? Is there a better place I should be reporting this?

[kamx3]

I don't like your new look as well as the old one. IMHO the ads are more intrusive and make reading the articles more difficult, but I guess that's where you get the money to support the website. I couldn't find a "Print this article" button on the new page layout. I occasionally like to print the articles to a pdf file for future reference, especially Leopard info for use when I get around to installing it.

[mrbach]

I like it, and I am not really big on change. Nice colours, and use of space. Sorry, but I use Safari adblock, so ads don't come into it for me. I will get enough of those when I buy the mag.
Seems like a winner to me.

[nelson92]

Can't say I'm over impressed by the new appearance and only time will tell if I grow to like it.
Still haven't managed to find the "stay logged in" option. I suppose it's there, just a matter of finding it.

[Andrei_Kharlanov]

Where is the print view?
I don't want to print all this ads!