MusicWeb's new look - give us feedback!

[Brian]

Today MusicWeb unveils its redesigned look. The website was founded in 1995 and previously looked it - with pink bars, a yellow background, a splash of different fonts and font sizes, and huge lists of links. This is the first step in changing all that.

Here are some things that Len, David Barker, and the team have already done:

• that '90s pink-and-yellow color scheme is gone
• fewer colors are used in the text
• review pages are shorter and require less scrolling
• the homepage is much, much shorter and many links have been tucked away
• a new checkmark indicating Recordings of the Month; the "New" sign is no longer animated
• Times New Roman is banished

There are some navigational tweaks yet to be made - eventually those buttons along the top will be drop-down menus, and searching will be easier. More importantly, many of the pages and many old reviews have yet to convert to the new look. I don't know how many webpages are on MusicWeb, but the answer is "A Lot", and we don't have them bundled together in a content management system.

Comments, questions, compliments, complaints?

[kishnevi]

At least on day 1, it seems to load faster.  (Shorter homepage, and less linkiness, I presume)

Beyond that, I don't see any real important changes--but faster loadtime would justify any of them.

Although, truth to tell, I do miss the pink and yellow..... 

[Daverz]

The homepage is still too busy.  [EDIT: I mean visually busy.]

I would prefer a blog-type feed of reviews.  Then I can catch up by paging back through them.  The current organization requires too much confusing navigating around.  I'm still not interested in wrestling with it.

[prémont]

Today MusicWeb unveils its redesigned look.

WARNING:
The Musicweb site is infected with a Trojan horse called JS/Seedabutor.B.
I have got it on my PC two times by accessing the "review from earlier months" survey page. Fortunately the antivirus program (Microsoft Security Essentials) was able to detect and to delete it. Afterwards I accessed the website once more and got the Trojan again (and of course deleted it again).


http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Trojan%3AJS%2FSeedabutor.B