I might be crazy or something... but I'm actually digging it.
My only gripe is that I now have to scroll down the "Forums" box but I can live with that I suppose.
New Web Layout?
Wow, people will cry about anything. I like the new layout. I think it looks pretty slick. Good job.
I didn't even notice the new fonts. I do actually like them though!
I kind of wish the GB logo wasn't floating and there was some sort of backing behind our personal stuff in the upper right hand corner, as mentioned before.
" I might be crazy or something... but I'm actually digging it. My only gripe is that I now have to scroll down the "Forums" box but I can live with that I suppose. "I think they said they're working to fix that.
They didn't fix the topic titles which are so dark I have to highlight them to see if i'm interested in the game someone is posting about. :(
The rest looks cool though.
I was just thinking about Giant Bomb doing an April Fool's prank when the page loaded. Wasn't expecting the change; almost had a heart attack.
I like it!
The new font is really, really bad. It's blurry, unconventional, and ugly. I'm not really feeling the new banner, either. It looks good on smaller resolutions, but it's kind of ugly in widescreen. Just my two cents.
Something about the old style just seemed more homey, while this is slick. Not that that's a bad thing, and I'm sure I'll grow used to it.
I like the idea, but I don't like the font. And something about the color palette doesn't match up with the rest of the site, imo.
I was scared at first, and I may even miss the old layout a little, but, it seems rather nice, so, I'm sure it'll grow on me and before long it will look normal.
Same here." @SlashseveN303 said:
" The font and drop down menus are a little bit strange looking. It might just be something I have to get accustomed to though. "I think the drop down menus look strange because they have sharp edges, while the rest of GiantBomb has rounded edges. "
@alexisg: Plans to do anything about this or are we stuck with square corners?
I think I prefer the old header at a glance. I'm not really seeing what the advantage to it is right now, whereas the improvement was immediately obvious with Alexis's fantastic chat redesign.
Also, I'm not sure why, but the text in the header/buttons is defaulting to what looks like Arial Black, which isn't very nice at all, anyone know what I can do to fix that? Running Firefox 4, just checked, it looks much better in Chrome.
Yeah, I"m pretty sure it's just another example of moron's attempting to be clever on Idiot Day. They wouldn't really launch a new design where the fonts are all super bolded and smushed together. It'll be normal, tomorrow. I wish people would stop doing this shit every year. Clever practical jokes are awesome, but "durr durr durr... daw, I was just kiddin'g, it's April Fools!" stuff is the lowest form of humor. Fart humor is above it.
Nobody is going to roll out a real layout on April 1st and they certainly aren't going to roll out a pseudo-2003 style interface. If it was real, they would have tested it in a real web browser and seen how poor the fonts are, how awful the bold smushed "Arial" and "Impact" style fonts are and realized that the bulky "selected" mouseovers and boxes in boxes look is not appealing. The direction design has been heading in is streamlined and light and this is big and chunky in a very retro way. It's either an April Fool's "joke" or it's just a really poorly made decision.
All right, have had a look around. Some critiques from a fellow webdesigner :)
Again, here the balance feels a little off. Using appropriate bold text instead of capital letters could calm it down a lot more. :)
Last point, I really don't think this new font is going to work for body text. Using it for headers etc should be fine, as long as it's bigger than the current 12px. I prefer using Helvetica or Arial for body font, it's at least the safest choice. :)
To round up, I'm not knocking this new style at all, I love the fresh layer of paint , but I feel like it has only been spread to the header and need to be a little more refined in other spots. Again, new header is awesome. Keep it up designers!
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