Inq gets a redesign

I thinnk the most telling indication that the inq staff dont give a sh*t what their readers think is the fact that the poll regarding the redesign showed it to be a resounding failure with around 75% not liking it has been ignored! where is the article giving feedback on the poll? or the article addressing the issues that have been raised in these comments?

Consider this Inq staff: if you alienate all your readers to the point they stop visiting how much income will you get from your precious ads then?

Guys, the crickets at Inq Central are deafening at this point... don't you think we ought to talk things out?

Your new design is an EPIC FAILURE, unless it was your intent to drive off your loyal readers.

Bring back the articles.
Bring back the old design.

can we please roll back the design? this sux bollux

I don't like the new design. Too less space for actual stories, reading content.
Your website still deosn't scale well for wide resolutions? CSS problems?
too many ads to actual content in any given page.

Well poll showed most hated the new layout, and the rest didn't like it. Yet no response from the site, and they haven't changed it back. Guess they really dont care what the opinion of their readers means to them. Goodbye, so long and dont let the door hit on the ass on your way out.

Jinxbowl, real theINQ in ALL Bravo has moved to FaceBook, seek any of old writers & find new world growing ONE Zine at time.

theINQUIRER Has been Ultimate source of Personalble information, too bad writers are allowed to walk off with goods intact.

NEW Adventure, Here & FB, For GREETINGS of Lifetime

The old site design was easier for just finding what I wanted. The new layout is very muddled, and I really don't enjoy the shedloads of graphics right on the main page. They just serve to make finding what I want to read far more difficult. I'd say either try again on the re-design or revert to the old one because this new one does not work at all.

I read this website daily. Great news. Thank you for this.

And about the redesign - it's step forward, good job, like it. Thank you for this.

Well I followed Mcgee here from The Register, but he's gone and the sight looks horrible. So i guess its time to change the home page back to The Register. Maybe I will bookmark the inquirer, maybe.

Oh it's not about you at all
is it then?
No. It's all about me.

Something that keeps knockin'
at my brain;
before I go insane
screaming out the words I dread.

I didn't know how to deal with it.
And so I just decided to myself,
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it.

So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of.
Innit what life is made of?

I don't know what I'm up against.
I don't know what it's all about.

wwwwhhhhaaaaaahhhh!!

Either someone has a sense of humour, or your add pushing script has developed AI and isn't too keen on the new site design either!

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6682/inqjob.jpg

...your new format IS crap. Of course, I used the term "It Ph*cking Sucks" in my posted comment that someone deleted. I guess that expression was a bit too strong. Sorry about the candidness, but as a long time fan of the Inq I was trying to get someone’s attention for doing something completely effing stupid. And after just reviewing the other comments again, I see I am not alone in my opinion. It looks like roughly 99% of the comments are against this ridiculous change. It appears that you have revised the layout to appeal to the Smartphone crowd based on fewer columns, a narrower page width, and larger text size. A smart webpage designer wouldn't abandon its loyal computer based fans and would have the page adjust to show the maximum info (i.e. more columns where possible) to accommodate different width displays as much as possible. The question now is will you fix the problem?

One question that bothers me is why this article is posted under the anonymous moniker "Inquirer newsdesk? Does the Inq no longer have an editor? Since Paul Hales left I haven't seen any Inq posting of who assumed his lofty position. This makes sense since the Ink seems like a rudderless child, under no guidance.

Unfortunately, the Inq has also lost so much credibility since Mike Magee, the original founder, left. The Inq has also lost some really talented writers who followed Magee’s lead with just the right amount of irreverent tabloid humour, which the Inq is widely known for. Some of them include: Fuad Abazovic, Charlie Demerjian, Paul Hales, and Sylvia Barak to name a few. I fear that the last of this great group will be gone soon. I’m talking about Nick Farrell. For when Nick leaves, there will be no reason to peruse the Inq because none of your current writers have the overall talent to maintain interest in the site in the style it is widely know for.

A long time ago the Inq had the inside track of being first to post new product releases, developments, tidbits, all things geek news, etc., NDA’s be damned; of course that was until Mike Magee left. Today, the Inq almost never posts new news any more. It seems to all be parroted from other tech sites. Once you lose Mike Magee’s irreverent, with a taste for flair, style the Inq is history. And, in my opinion, it’s closer than you think, especially when you’re also making stupid format changes. Also, having your corporate sister website (V3?) staff fill in the blanks isn’t cutting it.

There are just too many straight tech sites that are just boring. A few are: HardOCP, Tom’s Hardware Guide, Anandtech, and The Rogister. Back in their heydays, these sites were all cutting edge, excellent, and extremely interesting sources of all things geek, but now are either soooo boring, biased, or just massive ad sites.

I only took the time to write this long diatribe because I have always enjoyed the Inq and don’t want to see it fail. Only you and your staff can change course. It’s up to you.

Thanks,

Jimbo in Thailand

Guys, this new layout isn't working.

Judging by all the negative comments no one really likes it and with everyone that's spoken up there's bound to be 1000s more that feel the same way.

As has been said above, where are the older stories?

The news tab has a pathetic amount of stories on it that barely go back more than a day. If you want more then you have to go to the week to date section which is just a list of titles with no sub headings or content hints.

What;s the point of having all these articles if people can only ever see them for a day or two?

The news section should have at least 1 week's worth of news with an separate archive section that allows you to browse through previous month's articles by date.

Not only should you get your money back from the web designer that put this monstrosity together for you, You should fire and lobotomize all people that approved this crap.
Congratulations, you site looks like a joke now, well done.
Seriously, who designed it? the 12 year old son of the VP in charge of PR? I thought this was a news site?

People come to the Inq for the tech news.

You've consigned tech news to less than a third (299px) of the (960px) page.

Whoever came up with this site design has no business sense whatsoever, and it's going to hurt you badly.

There is no lasting loss of face in admitting a mistake. Please do so, and revert. Oh, and for pity's sake widen the site: on a 1920x1200 monitor it looks like a strip of loo-paper dangling down the middle.

Theinquirer!

Change it! Change it back to old one! You will lost all you visitors if you keep it.

--
BR, Unhappy Reader

The front page is far too busy. A terrible mistake.

I have updated my bookmark to the news tab now which is what I think a lot of other people will end up doing.

Gaaa!!!

Horrible!!!

I have to scroll down the page to see new content!!!

WHAT in heavens name were your designers thinking??

I thought you might have fixed the 'opera problem'
To be fair it could be advertisers or the way adverts are overlaid that breaks things because if you click quick links work. Otherwise right click open link is the only option.
Can see why the number of stories have been reduced massively, there arent many new ones per day these days.

Stuff is hard to find now. Way too much noise.

I want the old site back, it made it easy to just scan what's going on.

It was perfect. Don't fix what isn't broken!

I don't mind change at all (for example old CNN vs new CNN - great advancement), but whoever designed this is clearly NOT familiar with interface design. It's very poorly designed.

Keep in mind that readers come here with little time and little patience and need to see the "meat" (news) as quickly as possible. Your old site achieved this perfectly. The new one is confusing. You should've done a beta site first and listen to feedback.

Yahoo does not.

Copy Apple, not Yahoo.

Fortunately, I've reset my home page & Bookmark tab to go to "http://www.theinquirer.net/type/news".

Almost like the old one.

I suspect your page hit statistics will soon show that a big proportion of readers are going straight there.

FAIL!

This change is just pure CRAP!

I want INFO, NEWS, not gazillions of useless ads, pictures etc.

We all have WIDESCREEN monitors, and we want to use them and not scroll to death just to get 5 headlines.

That's the worst "design" theinq has ever had X-|

EPIC FAIL!

1. I'd pay a few dollars a year if it would prevent these kinds of changes. While most people wouldn't pay, a few of us might create enough income to keep the ads to a reasonable level and keep the site alive in both the financial and social arenas.
2. The News tab is a reasonable work-around for most of us, but why show sooooo few articles? If you quadruple the number of articles displayed per page, you could also show a few more ads without screwing up the ad-to-content ratio and having it look like garbage.

It was already at left side, now even more left. did you ever try to read it? the real stuff should be at center of the page, you should listen marketing less; adds like stuff at the center of the page ... cmon ...at least when i click news old style page is there ... -.- ... if you want more space get rid of some stuff from the right side bar ...

why do you management types have to destroy everything good and make it into lowest common denominator CRAP ??
please shoot your management and web design teams and get the old inq back.

Glad I read the first few comments as now I can just bookmark the news tab and skip all the other crap and just view the stuff I want.
Phew, thought for a few moments that I would have to dump the lot.......

Definitely, the concept of devoting less than 1/2 of the site layout to useful content is positively brilliant!

For Firefox with Adblock, Flashblock and No Script, or this site wouls be nearly unuseable C'mon Inq get on the same paage as everyone else... Or in Plain english your new layout (adbloated) layout SUCKS bigtime..

Long time reader here.

This is crap.

Once a great news site
Then got a web team from Vole
Fall on your sword sir

Or

The new site is crap
Looks like the web team got drunk
Drink AFTER work gents

Or

An ode to the Inq
What once was nice, now just stinks
Where are you Magee?

Or

Beer, wine, and liquor
Too much for your web monkey
My turn for the pub

I've been an Inq reader for quite some time. This redesign is terrible. I eventually stopped frequenting Tom's Hardware Guide for similar redesigns that were flashy and new, but obscured information. The old page was much better, and provided all the articles in a simple, functional way. I'm half tempted to just skip the main page and use the RSS feed instead.

Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, restore the old Inq page, and pay the web designer to shine your shoes or wash your car if they absolutely must do something with their time. Not even a trip to the pub can deaden this pain.

It looks like your web designer has a Viagra inspired 4 hour+ chubby for Myspace.

Had to reload the home page twice to make sure Internet Exploder wasn't screwing the hell out of the render.

I don't mind change, but you can keep this one to yourself. This is the Vista of webdesign.....move on now to Vista SP2...to be called Inquirer.net 7.0....

better yet downgrade back to Inquirer.net XP.

Still works like crap on Opera. I fail to see how a browser which passes all Acid tests cannot work properly with some webpages (Inq included). Can someone explain me why? Is Opera somehow cheating on this standard tests?

A whole lot of bashing going on, so I will throw out a positive comment : the single headline column lends itself to iPhone browsing quite splendidly.

nope, dont like it
dont like it at all

but
have been liking
the new reporters
and half way decent writing

this new layout
puts a damper on that
though

iam not Stewie

I totally don't like it looks like demo click here to watch more...

Everybody's trying to fix something thats isint broken?

From a usability stand point this new website just blows... I liked if I missed news before I could see generally 1 - 3 days worth of news.... now there is just 1 skinny column with way less info.... I'd toss it!

-Web Developer and SEO

You idiots really screwed the pooch with this redesign. Your site looks like shit now. I guess I will start reading the Reg again instead of try to wade through this pile of crap.

Bring back to old layout and hang the asshole that came up with this abortion, please.

Had the Inq set as my homepage for my daily tech read. Now the news is down to half a column on a page, otherwise endless scrolling.

Sure I could change it to the news link, but feels like I'd miss somethings as its not the front page of the site. May well just switch to the register.

Poor choice, perhaps a little survey of opinions first might have been in order.

Too messy, go back to the old layout

Terrible terrible design. Real step backwards and a awfull waste of space. I cant understand how money was wasted on it. Please bin it.

can only echo many of the comments already posted, messy, too much crap, not enough info. will start looking for alternative info site....

GHASTLY BEASTLY SHIT.
Please revert to old layout and FIRE your web development team and management who APPROVED this bullSHIT.

Like most people commenting I think the new design is terrbile, step away from the reason why people actually come to Inquirer, I want to see the news stories not adverts and features taking up 75% of the page.

I'll be changing my bookmark to http://www.theinquirer.net/type/news straight away and just hope it stays otherwise think i might point my broswer somewhere else for tech news.

Lemme guess, the In Depth column will have articles that exercise the use conjugation, proper nouns and possibly a comma or period.

I know that's a steep order for the Inq. So if you guys ever want to go back to the old tried and true method, we're here for ya'.

Landing page is cluttered - it takes time to steer away from images to content. I've been used to check the site quite often (many times a day) for years.

Images slow everything visually down considerably and the site loses focus and, frankly, also a bit of that air of professionalism, which stems from it being "content first", not a flashy bloat of nonsense.

Yes, I am aware of "news" tab, but that's unfriendly for readers, really. If (like me) you want to read all new content on the site, you have either use that awful bloat of a homepage, or click through all tabs. Horrible.

So - my opinion?

Revert back to the old style with a slight change - separate visually news and other content by day - i.e. horizontal line with date with usual few days to week of news articles on the single page

You can then do with only hour under every headline and you can use saved real estate for small tags (for example coloured rectangle with corresponding rectangles on the main tabs to distinguish different content types). You guys are surely competent to make such design to visually work.

The site layout is too busy. Keep it simple and keep your readers.

What happened , no more Inquirer just adds .
Simply terrible , we realize the Inquirer has to survive but to compromise the your support base is a travesty , will miss the Inquirer .

I know I'm probably repeating what others have mentioned, but here goes:

Make more items to the News tab.

All liking the old way can use that then.

How about a width-independant layout that suits all screens? Nae. Instead, we've just got lots of pretty pictures and an inferior front page. Sucks.

The last few days the fonts changed so that in the artcicles the lines didn't overlap each other when viewing with a big font in Opera. I thought my wish had come true. I see with the style change today they have reverted back. Please bring that font/style or whatever it is that was different the last few days back.

The site moved down my list of reads last time there was a redesign, it's pretty sparse with news as it was, now it's dropping off it. Thank goodness for El Reg...

I'm no too thrilled about the new design either - but for all the people who complained so bitterly, all you have to do is click on the "News" tab to get the old format back.
I can understand if you guys need more ad space, times are tough after all. But what distinguished your site from, ahem, similar ones was the clean layout. So please consider some changes, maybe use two columns of news at least. Thanks!

I miss the short article summaries on week to date.

We need a user poll:

- Like the new one
- Bring the old one back
- Don't care
- More of Nick bashing Apple, please

sj

Far too much clutter, just like the rest of the net. Adblock helps, but unfortunately a lot of the artistic clutter are now decorations for your own stories.

Thank God the "News" tab produces a more familiar layout.

Just don't get me started on what it's like on a mobile device, you've obviously never heard of browsing the internet on a phone!

Less news and more ads does not equal good.

Are you talking seriously about this design? Who designed this? a five years old boy? Completely distracting and illegible! I wouldn't expect this from inq, I am right now very dissapointed and sadly I am going to stop reading you, because I can't stand all these big images, ads and all distractive layers you have put. The first thing we want to see are the news, clear and pure text.

I hope you guys accept the feedback we're giving you, because the site is kinda looking ugly right now. As someone else mentioned earlier 2 news colums would be nice, as well as mantaining the third column with the advertising and the polls to a minimum of the total size, right now it just looks too big when compared to the news column, and it looks weirdly positioned. I know you guys have to find the way to make the advertising more accesible to cater to your sponsors but almost 33% of total colums it's kinda weird.

Either give the site as a whole more horizontal space or give it two news columns and less space for the adverts, maybe an horizontal positioning for them would do well for you.

Just my two cents

I like it.

It would be nice if the whole page were wider, but I guess it needs to be the size that it is to accommodate those who use a lower resolution. I can easily live with it.

GO back to the other display. There was soo much more to read and i didn't have to scroll too much to see the articles.

just plain yuck

How could anyone at the inq think that this is an improvement ? April is a few months away yet!

A move like this kinda makes me question the people operating this site, and more worryingly.. I am reading from this site.

Looks like you're trying to become a "feature" site rather than a news site, with week-old reviews in the right hand column. I think this was the point where I kind of stopped reading Tom's too.

Shouldn't have booted Mike so long ago. He knows how to do a good news site!

The front page is terrible.

Not enough actual news! Just a few stories / headlines.

Before, I could check once a day and see all the news that had happened, but now with so few spots I'll have to check 6-10 times a day.

I don't know about the rest of the site. I don't care about the rest of the site.

I really liked the convenience of a front page that gave me all the news without me having to hunt for it.

My dislike isn't because the new front page is different / new. It really is less useful than before.

And you can keep some 'older' stories on the main page to fill up the space, some of us comment junkies like easy access to the stories we already read.

And commenters see more ads. :)

because it's still a pain to read using a mobile web browser, even one that works properly. Sheesh. Get with the program boys.

I feel like Alastor Left-Eye ... oops ... "Mad-Eye" Moody now.

i dont really give a shit what you do with the site... youve lost a lot since charlie left anyway in the way of talent.

But FARK m8; cant you let the links at top right - the most read/commented - to show when theyve been clicked? *goes to a different site out of annoyance*

Maybe a more even split of the three areas would allow two columns of news. Really the three areas on the home page provides more than the news tab, it would be easier not to have to page down so much on the home page to pick the news you want to see.
Keep trying...

Hi, I'll spare the negative comments and just say that personally I greatly dislike the update. The old design could have been modified a bit to achieve a similar but superior effect.

Too cluttered, too many pictures - looks like a page of adverts!

Ugh! Sorry but it's awful! Can we have the old one back please? It's far too cluttered and too much packed into it. Looks dreadful. I won't stop reading (it's my favourite site) but... yuk! You have to change it...

People want more news on the first page, and you want to fit more links and ads. It would help if the page was 1280 pixels wide instead of 1024.

There was a noticeable drop in news content after the last (long standing)editor left and the Inquirer ceased to be my 1st choice for IT news. This redesign (less emphasis on news)takes the trend further and makes the site even less "attractive" to me.
Perhaps it was necessary to fill the space left by the drop in news stories?

please change it back this is aweful there is more ad space now than news stories this is wrong this is a news site not a scam site.

Like most websites it looks far better in Firefox with Adblock. Well done for driving traffic away from your homepage to News.

I have been a daily reader for years because your tech news digest was compact text. My internet access is on a small screen laptop, and this design drastically reduces the news items I can see - totally useless for Netbooks.
As travelling between countries, in UK, metered PAYG on '3' is v. slow download of unwanted heavy graphics crap, and steals more of my metered data. In past, you have reported on the mobile data congestion - so why exacerbate it ?
Unless you provide an option for a mobile bb friendly text-only version, I cannot afford to dl pages whre the 'News' has dropped to < 10% of the 'data'

Your web site causes a Javascript Error in IE6

For God's sake change it back. Please, please please

Don't want to be rude here, but I had to switch from Opera to FF just to post this comment. It's a bit sad, you're an IT site! You should be an example for other pages.

As for the layout itself I find it too colorful, if you know what I mean. Those "INQdepth" images are taking too much space. Maybe two would do better? And leave rest of the space to the headings. Now while reading I have this feeling of overwhelming "crampiness".

I found previous clear layout very appealing. And you probably had no choice, but now the ad column takes more space than other columns...

Please, try the fish... Fonzi did.

It was so simple before and noew it is as cluttered at Tom's Hardware. Next thing you know there will be different websites for news, reviews, and analysis. Thanks for effing up my favorite website.

I am now forced to change my INQ shortcut to http://www.theinquirer.net/type/news

Seems that the people who come here are of two schools of thought. One part come for the news and need to use http://www.theinquirer.net/type/news as their preferred link.
The other like the pictures and whatever else they find useful in the new "redesign", which means they do not need to touch their bookmark.

I suppose you will easily have guessed what school I am part of.
That said, I do find the redesign refreshing, but ultimately I am not going to use it because it is the stories I'm interested in.
I've tried to say that without being insulting to those who like the new design. Don't know if I made it.

Used to be good, could have left what worked alone. Already has ADS disguised as news. Like every over web site that now sucks.

I won't comment the looks of your new design.
More important, the page doesn't work in Opera anymore. Links are not clickable and scrolling won't work. Who did your QA?

This is bad, your going to wrong direction, please go back to old one. Start to be like other bad sites. Inquirer is the best in articles plus simplicity again and loudly SIMPLICITY.

It's not all that bad. In any case, I just subscribe to INQ via Google Reader so I don't rely on the site to find new articles.

Your commenting on articles is not usuable however. Go to this article and click Comment on article. The page reloads and sits at the top of the page. It should jump to the comment form. Then i submitted my comment and it reloaded and sat at the top again. I scrolled to see my comment only to find there was an error "missing comment title". I would not have known this if I had not scrolled. You need to ensure focus on the comment form!

Tech news is NEVER pretty, why do you persist in trying to make it so? Too many graphics, not enough news. Give us back our old site, please.

I come to the site to read the news, Yet the news gets the smallest space.

who just want what we're used to and works fine, instead of some fool forcing a re-design on us for no good reason.

Thanks to techno above for the tip; my links in browser and REXX script are already converted to
http://www.theinquirer.net/type/news.

And I too WON'T be tolerating the new look if that "classic" option is removed.

It's not very good.

Sack the designer.

or...

It's a brilliant piece of late 1990's retro web design. In that case, WELL DONE.

or is the ad column on the right wider than the news themselves? this says lots about the design.

the site looks like a poorly-knit patchwork of old and new stuff - and I should underline the "new" stuff is mostly ad space and equal rubbish.

I see a massive text Google Ad on the right side, which makes the site look completely out of whack.

You now have a 310x350 area of "news" within the 915x865 area that presents itself on my browser window.

That's 13.7% of News on the main page. Hurrah!

More news, less garbage. I understand the need for real income, but if that's at the cost of traffic to your website, then you might want to reconsider. It's a fine balance, sure, but you should consider cleaning up all that white space...

Please, change to the original form, this new design is crap. The important are the news, not the graphics or indexes to other subjects. Lot of news have to be in frontpage, not just four or five.

I am a regular visitor.

For me I could go to the the Inquirer main page and find lots and lots of stories. Now there are less stories. Now I have to go looking for them. I am not particularly good at looking for things as I don't have the time to dig around. I used to go to the Inquirer main page and open each story in a new tab. As proof that there are less stories - I have probably 1/3 the amount of open tabs of articles I am about to read than I usually do.

To me it looks as if you're seeing your site through your own eyes instead of those of your visitors. For instance the new page has three columns and not two like you claim. You obviously categorise things in a different way and therefore to you it looks like two columns. Go look again, you can loan my eyes for a bit if you like. ;-)

It's your site and not for me to criticise. As long as you're happy that's great but I will probably end up reading less articles on your site as a result.

Thanks anyway, I do enjoy visiting your website.

Sorry but it's absolutely horrible.

95% of the reason people visit your website has now been compressed into the left 30% of the homepage.

All this will accomplish is making people update their bookmarks to /type/news.

Money well spent.

Try harder, please!

Every day I see more and more web master turn into web bastard. Create complexity for its own sake.

The inquirer was one of the last web site I read each day that haved a high Signal to Noise Ratio. It have now dropper drastically on a level even lower than the others sites I use daily. Too bad :-(

I wonder how much is now the SNR of my data phone bill when I read the news with my mobile computer. Unfortunately I also have to pay the noise. At the same time every operator complain about the data traffic growing too quickly. Crazy world...

Please change it back or give an option to stick with the old.

Its blatently more advertising and less headings.

I used to really love and rave about the site, now its moving towards nabbing money.

Please revert, you have a good fan base, do it for the fun not the monies.

(Just to be clear - there is absolutely NO extra advertising on the new page - Ed)

... Adblock goes to work. "Redesign" always seems to mean more ads and less meaningful content.

I've pretty much given up on Inq for this reason. One more "redesign" like this and I'll be gone forever. Too many others sites that are just as good (better?) with less intrusive screen crap I neither want nor need.

This new design totally ruins my reading experience. It's somewhat harder to find articles since the pictures take the focus away. The design looks broken and uneven. Feels like it's full of commercials and the articles are just a bonus on the page... just in case you were interested in reading anything.

Great job.... a website that used to look OK (not great, but OK) now looks like a sewer. Luckily it doesn't smell like one.

While it's generally true that change is good, I guess you are the exception to the rule.

graphics not very well aligned in places & way too much ad crap on home page. Back to the register!

Have Google redesigned their front page, and why not. Because that is the best on the web.- NO GARBAGE.
Your page is one tiny step from becoming just as worthless like the rest of the web.
Once I read TomsHardware site every day now I never go there, same goes for Yahoo, Amandatech etc etc.
We do not need pictures etc to understand what a story is about, before we read it. If you want to put pictures on your site do it on the article page, and keep the headline page clean.
The news tab has to have as many articles as the old home page, if you want people who actually understands what the stories are about to use your site in the future. I would like to have the stories from the last three days, with a horizontal line with a date on separating each day.

The INQ finally comes into the 21st Century. Its not perfect but good to see the INQ have some images on the home page at last and easy to find videos.

Providing the quality of the news and reviews doesn't change then I am happy with the new lick of paint though the black boxes next to the pics is a quite harsh.

Good to see some new blogs.

On the old site I could see the titles of 20 articles; now I can only see 7 (even on a 1920x1200 monitor), plus a load of other stuff that I basically ignore.

I'm switching my favourite link to the "news" tab, but am I getting everything?

New design looks cleaner than the old one definitely. How about some constructive criticism then - I think either the right column on the news pages needs to be narrower to give the articles room to breathe, or make the site adapt to the width of my 22" screen so there's more space.

...but if you click on the News tab, it still looks like the Inquirer we know and love.
I'll just change my home page to the News tab instead :-)

Really. The redesign it's just awful. What else to say? The homepage just looks like a spam/scam site one. Really bad.

The Inquirer is(was?) unique, it's focus mostly on the latest tech news stories. With the redesign, the Inquirer looks like any other tech site! The focus has been taken away from the news stories. What next... weekly updates instead of daily?

The Inquirer's page is so skinny, a second row of news would easily fit in! Is it just me or have we also lost more top space to ads? Well at least we still have Fudzilla!

Not a fan.
Now 1/3 for stories, 2/3 for features and advertising. Can we swap those figures around.

^ sorry just found the week todate tab...thats beter

There appears to be no means to go back to older stories from the news tab....really quite limiting if you haven't browsed the page for a couple of days...you should at least make your least week of stories available.

Too much real-estate gets consumed by non-stories.
With the old design, I could quickly scan the titles of the stories of the day and immediately decent into them. Now I see too much fluff and pointers to non-news items on the home page.

I don't care about the rest of the other junk.

Can't you have a classic layout for those that prefer it?

(The News Tab pretty closely resembles the old layout - http://www.theinquirer.net/type/news - hope that helps - Ed)

It's nice that there is a bit of a redesign, needed a bit of a refresh.

Main thing i notice though is that the actual articles are given very little screen space on the main page. They seem to be tucked away at the side, when instead they should be given more prominence, a higher percentage of the screen width than anything else to draw attention to them and make it easy to see what is new.

At the moment it looks a bit cluttered to me and the news positioning makes them look almost an afterthought.

Just my thoughts FWIW.

too many graphics, too few stories on the front page.

Kinda like when Byte when from being a real magazine to an ad festival with the occasional story between the ads.