websites Ars Technica: Horrendous New Website

[Anibal P]

The page is fine, but then again I don't have ADHD and not easily distracted.

[remixedcat]

well this is what metro gives yah.... LOL

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[Wakers]

The page is fine, but then again I don't have ADHD and not easily distracted.

Neither do a lot of people.

Don't be an arse.

[Dapen]

Nice design but my eyes are wandering and lost trying to find content.

Edit: Ah that's better, you can change the layout. :)

[Guest]

I like it but it seems like a pretty processor intensive design, it feels a little laggy on my media PC.

[game_over]

I like it, not a visitor of the website so i can't compare to old design but the header and footer are both nicely done. I didn't like the squashed 3 column layout but switching to archive view fixed that.

[Cute James]

I cannot recall the previous ArsTechnica front page (perhaps someone can post a screenshot?), however, I actually rather like this design.

True, there is quite a lot of text content, especially in the middle column, with each article having a sub-heading, heading, body, author/date, and comments lines, however the appearance feels modern and fresh.

I expect there's a fair bit of clever layout code under the head too (I'm not terribly familiar with modern web coding) - the way the third column stops scrolling when there is no content, the headlines that 'cut' into the text, and the top navigation bar that remains at the top of the page.

The site loads very quickly for me, however scrolling is rather choppy on this old XP laptop.

[+Elі Subscriber²]

Regular site looks very good actually and their mobile site loads a lot faster than their previous site on my phone too.

[remixedcat]

http://web.archive.org/web/20110222083724/http://arstechnica.com/

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Looks like a pile of Ars

[Growled Member]

Not the worse I've ever seen but certainly not the best.

[articuno1au]

I have to say I think it's much improved.

While I detest the 3 column layout, moving it back to one column gives you basically the old Ars experience, but with a bunch of new tools. In particular I am liking the MyStories tool :o

Also: What is the deal with the floating header :| Makes me want to kill people when I try and view Ars on my tablet :\

[remixedcat]

The old ars does look more professional and the new one looks like it's trying to hard at being "on the verge"

[subcld]

love it :)

i even creat an account there

[MidnightDevil]

It's not really that bad imo.

[remixedcat]

hey look at the bright side... someone else can have this layout now!

[paxa]

not to bad, a bit too much information on the screen, but not bad.