Sun Blogs Home Page Updated

Yesterday the new Sun Blogs home page was released.

It was really interesting to see all the live feedback coming in from the Sun blogging community. I've been part of teams redesigning web pages for many years. It's always interesting to find out what reactions are to the new design post launch. Even though some feedback was less than positive (that always happens by the way) it was absolutely a healthy discussion. We got some excellent feedback and even released a revision on the same day. YAY for iteration and attentive engineers and designers.

Now it's time to get some feedback from you, dear readers. Tell us what you think about the new Sun Blogs home page, that's what the comments are here for, we want to know what you think.

Posted on: Jul 21, 2007

Posted by: evoljennifer

Category: Design

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Hello,
the new site is nice. However, the only part of this page I ever use is the "Recent posts" section. Its place has been largely reduced in the new version, which makes it much less convenient to use. I am not sure that "New Sun bloggers" is such an important menu, and I don't understand why "Popular blogs" is much longer than "Recent posts".

Posted by Marc on July 23, 2007 at 06:13 AM PDT #

I don't really like any website that goes for more than two columns, just too cluttered for my tastes. In this case it's particularly bad because they're all much the same width and same colour so there are no cues about which one to read first, and the one with the main content in it (recent blog entries) isn't even in the middle where you'd usually expect to find it. So personally I wouldn't make the "new bloggers" section a third column, I'd just give them a prominent link to their own page for the comparatively few people who are interested, and leave more room for a nice crisp two-column layout on the homepage. (The fact that the three columns are all such differing lengths makes it looks kind of untidy, too. And the "Popular Blogs" column is really raggedy and hard to read, with some entries broken over two lines and some not, and some truncated and some not. Very cluttered and hard to scan.)

Posted by Numpty on July 23, 2007 at 10:42 AM PDT #

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