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What's worse than that putrid wavy "cyan wonder" and all the ads? That I can't get rid of them when I print an article. Why print it? Because it nauseates me to try to read it on the screen. There's way too much happening on a page now to possibly concentrate on what I'm reading. Talk about disregard for ergonomics and heuristics... YOWZA!
I think you should change the survey on the main page to "Do you like the new site?" with several responses like: YES it's great, Yes it's okay, no I hate it, etc.
Then you can quickly see how the changes have affected everyone.
The wavy left margin makes the pages difficult to read. It's very distracting!
Pages seem to partially load. Always seem to have the advertisments come through. A good example of a design gone south.........
Why the switch ? .. was the site sold ? Its not that the action needs to be justified or anything ... just curios.
As far as the look and feel .. I dont like it, but i could get used to it except for one MAJOR problem .. if you goto the articles you will notice that the **** wavy left border interferes with the text making it difficult to read .. if you want to keep the wavy border, fine but atleast modify it so the text of the articles starts a little farther to the right.
Well, I guess all good things must come to an end.
Thanxs to all,
David Patrick
[email protected]
OK, search engine is "patched", but still (Find: Restore Window) when displayes docs where can it be find, don't work clearly (see first "choice"
Can't find error).
This left vertical wave is not heppy solution. Why, because if I find something interesting and I try to see it, then the (usefull) code over..., merged, how to say, my God, well the text of code is not visible because it's covered (XORed) with 'wave'.
I'll be happy when in right up corner exists buttons, for Home jumping, previous and next, but in fixed position.
Thanx.
One thing more. Now if somebody replay me, I haven't message at my @ address that I have unread post in CG.
The old site was simple and effective, allowing the user to go in, read/get what they wanted and leave. The layout of this new site is appauling.
- The red links are really distracting and irritating to the eye
- The fixed width is pissing the hell out of me because it's too narrow so I have to scroll a lot more to read anything. I have a decent sized monitor and run at hi-res but the new site only uses up have of my screen width.
- The wavy border is driving me nuts, especially compounded with excessive scrolling, it's giving me sea-sickness.
Fair enough that you're more concerned with the quality of the content, but when the appearance of the content is such that it deters or hinders the users' ability to appreciate the content, then no amount of quality will make up for the decline in user hits to the site. Please make ammends.
No doubt Zafir and crew have done a good job, but is that the reason for it's sucess ? Me thinks not ! It's the articles stupid she/he said. And where do the majority of them come from ? Not from the crew folks. If we cannot collectively (must admit I hate collectives, but whats the alt. ?) come up with a replacement, then we perhaps we should stop *****ing.
Rush out to sites like javacats.com or javalobby.org ! Developer.com sites stink ! Give us real info, not commercial crap !
Here's some comments
1) The wavy border is very irritating.
2) Why does the site take only half of my screen? Common do we need to suffer for those who still have a 640*480 screen
3) Since you announce that you have been sold to developper.com it seem's that the site is not update as often as before.
i agree about maybe moving the margin over and out of the
way. But the other stuff is going to take time. Codeguru
was a huge site. you just cant move everything over, flip
a switch and expect everything to be perfect. zafir did not
dump off the site and take off to the islands. he is still
here right ? after building up cg all those years do you think
he will leave it in shambles. no.
i dont speak for for zafir, but i respect him enough to at least
give it a chance. After all, does that sound unreasonable?
My concern mainly has to do with the Terms & Conditions - this part seems prohibitive:
All pages within this Internet site ("Site") are the property of EarthWeb Inc. Permission (which may be revoked at any time) is granted to download the material in this Site without alterations and for private and non-commercial use only so long as the following copyright notice is included: Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998 EarthWeb Inc. All Rights Reserved.
That means that they expect anyone who uses any code from this Site to only use it in NON_COMMERCIAL software!! I don't think so! That's just going to keep people from using this board... just to ensure that they don't open themselves up to future litigation - if they happen to write an app which uses code that may appear similar to code that exists on this Site.
Rail
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Recording Engineer/Software Developer
Rail Jon Rogut Software
http://home.earthlink.net/~railro/
[email protected]
THIS is the biggest issue (not that dumb wavy waste of space!)
While all contents of the site are (c)EarthWeb, may not be used for commercial purposes, and may be revoked at any time ...
The SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (still) say that the copyright remains with the author of the article, that this website may publish the article (its not even non-exclusive), but the author permits anyone (even commercial users) to use their code.
Clearly, EarthWeb / Developer.Com seems to have "bought" something that they believe now belongs to them, but wasn't actually "owned" by Zafir (or whoever) in the first place.
Also .. if future articles are to be published under the EarthWeb copyright conditions (rather than those explicitly stated in their Author Submission Guidelines) then what does this imply about:
The QUANTITY of new articles ?
The QUALITY of new articles ?
This opinion & these questions are copyright (c) 1999 Steve Kearon
So lets create a new site, "borrow" all codeguru articles and forget this
developer.com thing !