You’ve probably already noticed, but Gizmodo AU has a great new design which launched today. We’re still working out a few unexpected bugs, so bear with us if it’s not 100 percent perfect and rest easy in the knowledge that it soon will be.
Feel free to let us know what you think of the new design in the comments. And if you like it, please join me in an impromptu, completely random standing ovation for our IT guy Kaan – he’s been working on this redesign for months at the same time as keeping all our sites growing strong. I swear, the guy must see the world in code. Good work Kaan!
bishopAU
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 4:40 PMLooks great – well done Kaan
Dave
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 5:08 PMYeah i like it nice and clean. New but familiar!
Courtenay
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 5:12 PMI know ad’s make up a lot of Giz’s revenue, however I think it’s ugly that you have the HP banner right at the top above all of the content, and also have one that follows when you scroll.
Also, how come the design doesn’t follow onto the inner pages? It’s the same old one…
[Chris@Giz: Yep, we rely 100 per cent on ad revenue to pay the bills around here, so we need to find a balance between advertising and editorial. The design's coming to all pages soon - we first want to make sure it isn't screwing with any of our readers' "more interesting" browser/OS combinations.]
Dexter Holiday
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 5:31 PMNoticed the URL of all ‘Tags’ on the front page is a tad screwed. All link to http://www..com.au/etc
Just a heads up.
[Chris@Giz: Thanks Dexter, all fixed now.]
DownUnderDS
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 5:42 PMLooks good. Ad revenue will also be up.
maddogeco
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 6:39 PMi prefer the old one. this one looks to much like the yanky one
Puggs
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 6:46 PMummm… it’s shit… go back to the old design… the new one wastes so much space on my 1680×1050 screen…
Don’t like it, the ad that stays on screen is ok… but you could fit 2 in the space it takes up… 2 columns that is…
Puggs
Josh
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 8:14 PMFixed width and scrolling ad, no offence kaan but I’m finding that hard to like.
Pat
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 8:14 PMEvery time i come to gizmodos new site, my internet explorer window freezers, i dont have a shitty comp, its something to do with the changes u have made, but when it unfreezes and i get to ur site, it looks ok, dont like the scrooling advert tho
John
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 8:40 PMCongrats Kaan – looks awesome ! new and IMPROVED !?!
I look forward to many hours of Gizmodo-gazing. Keep up the good work all.
Steve
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:44 PMNice Work Kaan – I love the tidy look; have been browsing the site for years and this is the most comfortable I’ve been browsing and reading as the colors are well chosen and its very clean – Well done!
Just a little something I’ve noticed in the past few months with some articles is that the words begin at the right hand top of the image and then jump to be positioned within the normal body below the image. Not sure if this is from the US site as its mainly the US items which have it, but, if its not, its just a heads up in case you had some control over it.
Keep up the good work guys, I just hope Giz AU doesn’t become flooded with 90% iPhone related stories like the US Giz..
David
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:51 PMVery sleek and sweet!
Mark B
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:51 PMHas this upgrade borked your RSS feeds? I haven’t gotten anything off Giz in a couple of days, but Lifehacker seems fine. Clicking on the link in the top left of the page marked “RSS feeds” just takes me to the archives. Archives page seemingly contains links to RSS feeds, but they just point back to Archives.
skydiver
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 10:22 PMHUUUUGGE improvement! Much better than the old design. You’ll always get people not liking change, but I reckon it’s much, much better.
Matt
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 10:35 PMThe new layout doesn’t work well with Opera if you zoom the page at all. Zooming pushes the side ad off-screen a bit, so when you scroll down and the scrolling-ad stuff is triggered the ad jumps back on and covers the right-hand side of the text.
Just checked and the same issue applies to Firefox 3. Even if the ad isn’t actually pushed off the side of the screen it still resets to a position that covers part of the text if the text has been zoomed.
Laura
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 9:27 AMDoesn’t really work well with the Eee either – at least not the 7′ one. There isn’t any padding between the left hand side of the window and the start of the text which doesn’t look pretty. Some of the text is also cut off. Is there any hope of fixing this?
Oh, and the scrolling ad is really distracting and not in a good way.
dink
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 10:26 AMThe scrolling advert along the right is terrible. When zooming in on the page using Opera it will obscure the text.
Adam Sweeney
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 5:08 PMWell, at first it looks pretty good, but seems to have a few glitches, why did i bother buying a widescreen monitor, if gizmo sites like this don’t follow suit and start making widescreen format webpages, i didn’t buy it just for games and videos, most of my time is spent surfing the web but it seems that this is where the widescreen tech should be utilised, not thin frame websites that you have to peer at your screen to see.
Also some of the comments links seem to be screwed, i just tried to read the comments on the PS3 comp page, and let me tell you, that is the biggest waste of bandwidth that i have ever seen. Come on guys, for a gizmo site your UI is sorely lacking.
Sort it out Kaan.
Nick Broughall
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 7:22 PM@Adam Sweeney – it’s a work in progress. There’s sure to be bugs with the change. Give us a little bit to work them out. I know you’re a regular around here (and we love you for it), but the attitude sucks. If you want to offer constructive criticism, go nuts, but otherwise, best tone down the attitude…
Adam Sweeney
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 10:36 PMSorry guys, I didn’t mean to come off like that, I guess I was venting a little, didn’t really read through it before I posted it either. I really enjoy this site, I spend a lot of my time on it and even advocate it to my friends and i do appreciate the fact that you guys write it, and improve it.
Also to make me swallow my pride a little more, it seems I had just gone over my download quota and the excrutiating load time had nothing to do with the page but the speed. My bad, and consider my attitude officially toned down.
Nick Broughall
Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 10:26 AM@Adam Sweeney – No harm, no foul. :-)
Stew
Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 2:41 AMLooks pretty decent, but here are my comments:
1 – That ad bar that follows you down is really annoying. I know this site is completely sponsored by advertisers, but still – it’s really, really annoying to the point where I’m pissed off with it.
2 – I browse a whole day’s posts on one page (eg. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/01/) starting from the bottom & reading up so the posts are in order. It’s also easier to keep track of what I’m up to. It seems like the “next day” & “previous day” links at *both* the bottom & top of the page have disappeared so I have to type the next day’s URL manually. Please put this back!
3 – The number of comments in brackets for both AU & US posts seems to have disappeared after clicking through to the whole article. Please put this back so that I can see what’s a hot conversation topic & what’s not.
4 – The fixed column width is very narrow. I run my browser windowed on my 24″ 1920×1200 screen, but this is still just tiny. I sit close enough to my screen as it is :)
5 – It does seem a lot more like the US site. The word “clinical” springs to mind for some reason, but not in a bad way. I think I preferred the simpler warmer(?) previous version, but not by a great deal, and I’m sure I’ll get used to this new one like everyone else. Be sure to keep the larger pics per post instead of the US’s smaller thumbnail pics!
All in all, Kaan’s done a damn fine job.
Stew
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 2:51 PMOh yeah – found another thing. I’m using a little Eee PC 900 at the moment, and I’ve found that embedded flash vids are running like an absolute dog due to all the other flash-based advertising on the site – even when clicking though to the main article and watching it there.