Comments on: About.com Redesign Goes Largely Unnoticed

By: Otooo

Otooo — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:52:32 +0000

I hadn’t noticed because I am always on the inner pages, not the home, but I am glad they have redesigned it – it looked horrible now that I see screenshots.

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:51:45 +0000

I plan to use it a little just as a test, but I’m not convinced they’ll overcome my strong dislike for it. But they deserve a shot at convincing me, I think.

By: clickfire

clickfire — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:35:00 +0000

Great catch, Donna. My reason for not spending more time there with old design was that their ads were too numerous and clunky, frequent pop-ups and just slow. The new design seems a lot cleaner and faster.

By: Addiction Rehab Centers Blog

Addiction Rehab Centers Blog — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:17:53 +0000

It used to be so bad I would stopped using it years ago. BAsed on your posts I took another look at it and it does seem like they have made it much better. Still they don’t follow simple web conventions on things like RSS. Look at a blog and then click on RSS – do you get the RSS feed for that blog like anywhere sensible online? Nope, you get some crazy options to chose from a bunch of feeds on the topic – none of which is the blog you were on when you presses the RSS button. They did improve from very lame to maybe an ok design. I might actually use it again because they do have decent content if you can actually get to it in the small windows they give for real content versus tons of ads. You can just use the blog home page to add the blog to your RSS reader.