Recent news layout update on Main page


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This was how we used to do it, note all that text at the top of the page:

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The new way, now the drop down menus on the top tabs have been removed, to see the other feeds click on any mini-tab in that area:

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When you click on any news related item in the new "Recents" area, you will see a preview of the story to the right:

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Clicking on any of those mini-tabs sets it to your preferred feed preference, handy if you always want to see the most popular news items ;)

When you mouse over that area the right pane also pauses, to stop the promo image rotation use the play controls on top right of the area.

Thanks to Redmak for completing this, a forum version will follow sometime in the near future. We are open to any ideas, feedback and design update concepts (at the moment because the tabs overlap the promo images we have done a 2px border so the active tab on the right doesn't look weird).

To see the changes you will have to press CTRL and F5 (together) to clear your browser cache on the main page.

We hope you like this update!

Rollover no longer shows the latest posts in "Software" "Gamer" section?

Rollover? I'm pretty sure I explained that the mini-tabs have to be clicked to see the content from other feeds.

Or do you mean something else?

Nope, correct.. now it is the "All news" feed. so when the other sections are active you'll see less main page stories too..

Edit: If a software news gets rated it will show as well, so really it's an improvement. I also use the All news feed (which shows a lot more) in Outlook to keep track of everything (in all sections) that were posted.

Isn't this discouraging people to go into those sections? Now users have less exposure to those feeds, feeds being less distinguished between sections... at least for me, now I probably won't even look at those feeds, where as before I can just rollover to get a quick glance on news updates.

My only problem with the main page is the "Filter by sub-category" thing whenever I mouse over the Main tab. I use that bar to go to My Controls, but this feature gets rid of that link so I have to click a button to get it back. There's plenty of space to keep the links there.

But yeah, I like the new changed (Y).

My dream would be making the current clickable action on these new buttons moved to the rollover action and the clickable action redirect to the actual section. Then, the top bars could be completely scrapped (Software, Gamers, Live, and Contest could be added of course) and the page would look a lot cleaner. :D

You know as much as I love visiting Neowin, I always thought the interface is never really friendly. There is a lot of clutter and not really useful content, there is a lot of text, there needs a lot of clicks to do what you need. As an interface designer myself, it's not really the sort of thing the public really want to deal with.

I like the rollover better as I tend to hide that mini-tab portion.

Hiding that part maks the page cleaner and less cluttered.

Furthermore the mini-tab is missing the software tab.

Is there anyway to bring the rollover back?

As an user option?

At least the rollover are still there in the forum pages.

Sorry but I preferred it the way it was. :blink:

me too, theres just something i can't put my finger on that makes it look wrong :p

when i first saw it i thought someone had made an error and managed to copy the styling for the tabs and inserted it randomly into the site :/

the preview thing is a good idea but i preferred the forum + news posts visible (basically the old way), also when the hell is the manual refresh button/link coming? you said soon the last time it changed and it never appeared!

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