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My fellow developers: This is a fine example of a bad idea. As so many have already pointed out, this is a step in the wrong direction. Most of the people I have met on this site are serious about their work and clearly this site is not a serious place to conduct business. The color scheme is glaring and abrasive, the wavy border is confusing and that speeding car is making me sick. The content is getting lost in the interface.
The site now violates most of the rules for a good user interface and has become a toxic place - one to be avoided.
It's a pity because it was fun while it lasted and Zafir and others who developed this site are a credit to the community. I hope that the people who are in a position to do so will fix this quickly and restore this fine resource to a more usable form.
(If anyone from the site is reading this - Please e-mail me when it's safe to return)
Programmer @ Gayle Mfg Co Woodland, CA
In fact cant find anything - the search is crap.
I'll not be here very often anymore
Where did the news filter page go?
I used that constantly... now I can't find it.
I would have to agree with most of the other posters... though I can understand the economics and the thought involved, it sucks to see Codeguru being taken over by Earthweb. I fear that the quality of what has always been my favorite MFC resource may be adversely affected.
Most pages seem OK, but the new main page is terrible. I have 21" monitors at home and work, and even with a pane on the left for bookmarks, about half of the html display is blank.
Is developer.com accustomed to serving actual working programmers? I can't understand how they could think this is good.
DISASTER !!!!!!!
I agree with everyone else, this new interface is awful. Whoever made this decision was obviously not thinking of the users. Why did you change it? This was the best developer site around....now it is unprofessional looking and quite frankly an eye sore.
To be less than polite, as long as the code quality remains as high as it is, I could care less what layout the site has. If merging and updating with developer.com creates a better site, I'm all for it!
Congrats on having the most information...
Nick
I don't like that everything is slow and/or broken. This really sucks.
This site has gone from A+ to F- in just one day.
The only thing I can say is :
'GOODBYE'
Despite all the obvious work you've put into it, I hope you have a backup of the old site because unless you fix the plethora of problems with this new one (don't ask me to list them, they are far too numerous) or restore the old one, you are going to loose ANOTHER faithful codeguru.com user.
The first thing I tried with the new site didnt work.
I searched for "RTF". In the past, it listed useful RTF code samples etc.
Now it says "0 matches", and annoyingly dumps me into developer.com web page, not code guru.
Man...
I was just about to post up another article (on Edit Controls this time), too! On second thought, maybe not. To help other developers, yes. To help pay the bills for EarthWeb, <B>no</B>.
What the <B>Hell</B> happened?!? Zafir, if you sold the site, and got paid for it, then that is cool, because you started it all. <I>However</I>, if CodeGuru has been sold, then is no longer CodeGuru, it is </I>EarthWeb's-Idea-Of-Developer.com-And-CodeGuru-Combined</I>, and it just ain't working!
Get out while you still can(!), and open up a site under CodeJockey, or open up another new site if you can. If you cannot, ask for help! I am sure that we all could get something done here!
A few problems with the new L&F of the site:
<B>o</B> I do not need the fixed width interface (I do not run my screen at 1600x1200 for nothing, you know...).
<B>o</B> I do not need to be brought to DICE when I look at the Jobs link (I know how to get to DICE if I ever need to).
<B>o</B> I <B>really</B> do not need to see "Developer.com" or even "EarthWeb" everywhere on the site. (<I>Everyone</I> knows about CodeGuru. Not that many know about Developer.com, and even less about EarthWeb!)
<B>o</B> What are we, seasick on a ship?!? Get rid of "The Wave"!
<B>o</B> Can really do without the links to other EarthWeb/Developer.com sites. I know how to get to Developer.com already, thank you. (The site worked fine before, and did sh*tloads better than Developer.com did. Have we learned anything yet? 'Ya got lucky with GameLan, do not mess with CG!)
<B>o</B> Can really do without the Developer.con search stuff. If I want to search, I will search CodeGuru, thank you.
<B>o</B> (Tired of *****in' here...)
Peace, and good luck!
-=- James.
... And now the Markup is not working...?
Geeze...
-=- James.
The markup does work.
You have to use square brackets instead of angled brackets.
As I've pointed out in the addendum to the original post I hope to continue to exert an influence on the quality of the content. Wish me luck in this regard.