websites Ars Technica: Horrendous New Website

[Ice_Blue]

I usually visit this website once a day.

Yesterday, however, I was in for a shock.

This website looks as if it was designed by a newbie designer who was staring at the Windows 8 Start Screen on his other monitor, hyped up on coffee and Cheetos.

Two words describe this website now: Eyeball Rape.

http://arstechnica.com/

[Anibal P]

It's not a bad redesign at all, and you have the option of going back to the older one column style if you want, but eyeball rape is a bit melodramatic don't you think?

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

After reading your post, I was expecting to see a poorly designed website with comic sans font and high-contrast images. Instead, I saw a somewhat aesthetically pleasing site that reminds me of The Verge. I actually like it a little more than the previous design.

[ShMaunder]

No idea what it looked like before, but the "archive view" is much better.

Looks like they tried to take the verge then separate it into columns.

It is far too busy though and if you compare it to Neowin, it is a disaster.

[nominak]

Too much on screen. Just like The Verge.

[Ice_Blue]

It's not a bad redesign at all, and you have the option of going back to the older one column style if you want, but eyeball rape is a bit melodramatic don't you think?

Yeah, I went a little overboard there.

But I still think it's ugly. Will revert to the older version. Thanks.

[Damian]

Looks like they got their inspiration from The Verge.

[Ice_Blue]

No idea what it looked like before, but the "archive view" is much better.

Looks like they tried to take the verge then separate it into columns.

It is far too busy though and if you compare it to Neowin, it is a disaster.

This.

[Dashel]

This slatification of websites really needs to stop. :x

[Razorwing]

Yeah that's a bit too much.

[remixedcat]

My god that site is slow as hell on my phone! Also looks like they ripped off the verge. Yuck I like the old layout better. The old layout was less choppy and sleeker. It even worked better on my phone! This new version doesn't.

[ahhell]

Meh.??Ars went downhill years ago.

[sopharine]

What's with the Internet newfound obsession with ****ty fonts.

[remixedcat]

What's with the Internet newfound obsession with ****ty fonts.

and the overusage of

FREAKING HUGE TEXT!!!!

[Vice]

I did prefer the old design but if you select the other view mode where it looks more like a blog it isn't so bad. But yeah I still prefer the old design.

[Fraud OS 11]

Clearly and obviously Verge-inspired, only that their Microsoft section, called One Microsoft Way is nowhere to be found. Good if they got rid of it. It was pro-MS propaganda by Peter Bright.

[Som]

its a bit cluttered but nowhere near as bad as this site

[Scorpus Veteran]

I really dislike designs that make it hard to see the chronological order of the articles; this redesign is one of them and it seems to be targeting people who go for catchy titles and images rather than the newest.

That said the "magazine" style front page is the only bad aspect, once you change it and start reading the articles it's a relatively nice design

[chezy666]

Reminds me of Wired, the old layout was better.

[moloko]

Way too much on that first page. its overload.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Seems to be inspired from The Verge, no thanks!

[greenwizard88]

I'm surprised there's noone that likes it. Usually, even bad designs get at least a few props.

But for the record, I don't like it either.

Sucks, it used to be one of my favorite sites before they made it impossible to read.

[Wakers]

I don't know why this trend has come in over the last year or so - but now every website seems to want to bombard you with information. Gawker did it, and now Ars technica are doing it.

It is too hard to comfortably view a page when you are presented with 2,500 seperate snippets of articles broken up with random smatterings of giant text.

It's about the first thing you learn in presenting information.

[tiagosilva29]

Verge-inspired? Nope.

[Syanide]

Looks awful, luckily I read most of the headlines through RSS readers. The new logo is a step back as well, and they have 5 different non complementary fonts on the page. Urgh.