- Links to sources. It's much easier to locate the source now for each article than in the past.
- Profiles for everyone. It makes the site much more personalized.
- Gadget stats and quoted modules.
The bad (pretty much everything else):
- The site is way too complicated to view. I know you guys wanted to put in more content, which is great, but the layout is confusing. When I'm scrolling down, my eyes tend to jump over to the right side of the page since that section has the biggest fonts.
- Do we really need the Twitter and Digg stat boxes? We're on the site to read news. I don't think many people here care about what's hot on Twitter.
- Featured/breaking box on the right-hand side seems to get buried away in the rest of the site.
- Archives should be lower on the right-hand side. Daily readers of the site (like myself) come here numerous times a day, so we don't need to read posts again from three weeks ago.
- I like how you didn't go with the standard boring webslider for the top stories on the main page, but the current setup you have doesn't work. Between all the contrast and mish-mashing of the photos in that box, your eyes jump all over the place.
- You need to get the blog entries higher up when you first visit the main page. There's nothing more I hate in web design than having to scroll past a bunch of images and gizmos to get to the content that I want to read each time I load up the page.
- I have Adblock Plus, and somehow your google-ish ads (which I don't click no matter what the site) are now appearing again.
- Please change the color of your headlines for each blog entry. Since everything is black now, including the bottom bar with the comment and source entries, stories tend to run into each other without any contrast between them.
- Lastly, if you can still even read this comment at this point, the fonts are way too small and there's too many of them. Is the name really more important than the comment that it has to be larger? Even on the main page there are about 50 different kinds of fonts.
Bottom line: Less is better. The best aspect of the old site was that it was so clean and easy to navigate.
When the lady said "$199 on standard data plans" it killed all the interest I had in this phone.
When the fuck are companies going to allow consumers to buy smartphones without data plans? I live on a college campus that's completely wireless, so it's illogical to pay $30+ a month for a data plan when I can get Wi-Fi everywhere for free.
I really feel they would sell a lot more of these higher priced phones if they didn't shackle people into these ripoff data plans. Just like the iTouch, people could use it to access online features in some areas and use it as a phone elsewhere. Why bother including Wi-Fi access if you have to be locked into a 3G data plan to begin with?
You should have the ability to buy a phone and use some of the more advanced features without being locked into a data plan- similar to the iPod Touch/iPhone.
My entire college campus is wireless. Unless I wanted to check my email in the car on the occasional trip out, why would I need a data plan at all? It's a waste of money.
"I love my little computing companion but I often find myself missing a full sized keyboard. I have been looking at several of these portable and flexible keyboards, but I can't seem to make up my mind about which I should buy. I don't want the keyboard to be overly expensive, but I want it to be good quality. Also, how difficult is it to type on these keyboards? Thanks!"
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- Links to sources. It's much easier to locate the source now for each article than in the past.
- Profiles for everyone. It makes the site much more personalized.
- Gadget stats and quoted modules.
The bad (pretty much everything else):
- The site is way too complicated to view. I know you guys wanted to put in more content, which is great, but the layout is confusing. When I'm scrolling down, my eyes tend to jump over to the right side of the page since that section has the biggest fonts.
- Do we really need the Twitter and Digg stat boxes? We're on the site to read news. I don't think many people here care about what's hot on Twitter.
- Featured/breaking box on the right-hand side seems to get buried away in the rest of the site.
- Archives should be lower on the right-hand side. Daily readers of the site (like myself) come here numerous times a day, so we don't need to read posts again from three weeks ago.
- I like how you didn't go with the standard boring webslider for the top stories on the main page, but the current setup you have doesn't work. Between all the contrast and mish-mashing of the photos in that box, your eyes jump all over the place.
- You need to get the blog entries higher up when you first visit the main page. There's nothing more I hate in web design than having to scroll past a bunch of images and gizmos to get to the content that I want to read each time I load up the page.
- I have Adblock Plus, and somehow your google-ish ads (which I don't click no matter what the site) are now appearing again.
- Please change the color of your headlines for each blog entry. Since everything is black now, including the bottom bar with the comment and source entries, stories tend to run into each other without any contrast between them.
- Lastly, if you can still even read this comment at this point, the fonts are way too small and there's too many of them. Is the name really more important than the comment that it has to be larger? Even on the main page there are about 50 different kinds of fonts.
Bottom line: Less is better. The best aspect of the old site was that it was so clean and easy to navigate.