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[alonewiththemoon]

I do not like the redesign of Gilded Serpent's front page *at all*.  First of all, it's tacky to let the viewers clearly see that the ads take up an equal amount of real estate to the content.  Secondly, I do not like the keyword method of describing what's in each article.  It's boring and doesn't inspire me to click on any of them.  Finally, I really miss having the posting date next to the article title, because that's how I kept track of whether I had read something or not.  This will be especially annoying now that the articles and reviews are listed in separate areas.

I appreciate a desire to update the look and make it sleeker, but this is not good.

Comments

[christianet.livejournal.com]

Wow. Ewwwwww. That's really bad. And yes, not having posting dates sucks. And keywords are really for the benefit of search engines, not the reader. Lordy. My eyes are bleeding.

[bluemoonsaga.livejournal.com]

yay i was surprised by it & don't like it.

i do like the new "exclude shopping" feature on bhuz.

[nepenthedreams]

Agree - I've been using that new feature all the time!
It has been good to quell the unquietable costume lust that I am trying to tamp down.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Me too! It's fantastic! Especially now that non-BD sales have been allowed.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Well,I don't love it, but GS has always been ugly and littered with ads. I do think it's a big improvement.

I understand re the missing dates, though. I like reading old articles but it would be nice to have a date context.

[spitcurl.livejournal.com]

ACK! My eyes!

[pamelasbelly.livejournal.com]

Just took a peek and, yeah, that's bad! All those small adverts on the side remind me of the "escort" and massage advert pages in the back of the Village Voice ;-P. Same design with all the small squares and women's pictures - probably not the image they were going for but that's the first thing that popped into my head when I saw it!

Looks like it was reworked by someone with good technical skills but no sense of media/news reporting..