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  #21  
Old 07-07-2008
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Looks like it's already been updated with a white T inside a blue background.

I like the new look Julio & team.
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Old 07-07-2008
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change is good.. usually.. and this is one of them
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  #23  
Old 07-07-2008
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I will be honest, it seems that the side bar is to big. It takes away from the actual stories.
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Old 07-07-2008
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The new home looks awesome

It's much "sleeker"
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Old 07-08-2008
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I like the new home page, but after you scroll past the boxes on the right, there is a ton of white space. Looks kind of funny.

I'm also not a big fan of the white T in the blue box for the browser icon..
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Old 07-08-2008
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Originally Posted by SNGX1275
I like the new home page, but after you scroll past the boxes on the right, there is a ton of white space. Looks kind of funny.

I'm also not a big fan of the white T in the blue box for the browser icon..
Yay, looks like the old one is back?
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Old 07-08-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SNGX1275
I like the new home page, but after you scroll past the boxes on the right, there is a ton of white space. Looks kind of funny.

I'm also not a big fan of the white T in the blue box for the browser icon..
Hi SNGX, I assume you are using Opera?
Where do you see the white space, in the left column or the right column?

As for the favicon, the current one is sort of a temporary solution though it's still not that bad.
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Old 07-08-2008
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I think he is talking about underneath the right hand side tabs:
Most Popular
Downloads & Drivers
TS & Community
Newsletter

Once those are done there is a lot of whitespace underneath. It would look better if the stories underneath those secitons went the width of the page.

I am using Opera as well.
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Old 07-08-2008
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Oh, I see. If that's the case then admittedly that's been done on purpose to keep things tidier. Plus there is this sort of consensus on web design that reading is better done when columns are not far too wide.
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Old 07-08-2008
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Yes. I was talking about the same thing Poertner_1274 thought. I didn't have any solution in mind and I agree if you simply made the text fill the page it may be too much. I didn't know what to do about it, which is why I didn't offer any suggestions.

Overall though I think it is a nice change and I like it.
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Old 07-09-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SNGX1275
I like the new home page, but after you scroll past the boxes on the right, there is a ton of white space. Looks kind of funny.

I'm also not a big fan of the white T in the blue box for the browser icon..
Hmm, the "T" seems to be not vertically centered.
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Old 07-09-2008
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On the main page, sub-sections show up where the mouse hovers over each main topic button, could we have an extra sub-section under 'forums' giving direct access to 'my posts' please ?

Seems the new header is pleasant to use, slightly less intuitive (subtly different colours for the differing sub-heading lines might help), takes a longer time to load and nothing to do with browser cache seems to help that.
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Old 07-10-2008
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Triple the fun !

I'm a bit confused
Maybe I'm color blind, but there is a difference isn't there?

Is this the TechSpot logo? (as seen here: http://www.techspot.com/articles/dualboot/ )


Is this the TechSpot logo?


Or is this the TechSpot logo?



Or it one of these? http://www.techspot.com/logos.shtml


Or are you wanting some member active discussion on designing a new logo?

There does seem to be a lot of different logos about

Last edited by kimsland; 07-10-2008 at 09:12 AM.. Reason: added a link to even more logos !
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Old 07-10-2008
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Logos for nearly everyone have changed over time. All of them are logos of the site at one time, current logo is the bottom one. What is the problem here?

For example, here is the progression of Apple logos:
http://www.fizbang.com/i/apple/newton.jpg
http://www.fizbang.com/i/apple/apple_1.jpg
http://www.fizbang.com/i/apple/apple_2.gif
http://www.fizbang.com/i/apple/apple_3.gif
http://www.fizbang.com/i/apple/apple_4.jpg
http://www.fizbang.com/i/apple/apple_5.jpg
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Old 07-10-2008
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Kimsland is correct about 3 different logos on the entire site.

The 3DS one is on some of the guides
The middle one is on the forums
The bottom on is on the Frontpage


However to answer kimsland's question. Julio & team have designed the frontpage already. The forums are to follow shortly (and the logo 'i presume' will change shortly as well to reflect the frontpage)
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Old 07-10-2008
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Yeah, I was confused by that too kimsland, when I was browsing the guides and noticed some of the older ones said 3dspotlight.
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  #37  
Old 07-10-2008
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Excuse us, but our one man webmaster team (meaning me) can sometimes not handle the load of implementing such a big change site wide as fast as you guys desire it to

Still the feedback is appreciated and at least the forums will be updated very soon. Because the change will come with an upgrade to vBulletin 3.7, this requires more planning than you would think.
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  #38  
Old 07-11-2008
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I think I know why it loads slower for me.
Julio, could it be by any chance that more news items are displayed per page
than before?
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Old 07-11-2008
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Nope, not at all...
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  #40  
Old 07-13-2008
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I love the new design...

Is there any beta testing you need help with for the forum redesign?
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