Written on September 18th, 2006 at 07:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Engadget Redesign
Gadget Blog fans will be interested in Engadget’s new design and list of features. They’ve rolled it out in the last hour and it’s definately got a new look and feel. Here are their main change headings:
- User moderated comments
- Comment logins
- Dynamic content width
- Breaking news, features box, Engadget Mobile headlines
- Tags and tag feeds, comment feeds, and category feeds
- Multiple podcast feeds!
The breaking news and features boxes are a good move. I’m sure they get a lot of visitors to their individual archive pages and this will help build page views.
I’m also interested in the moderated comments which allow users to have control in how they display and rank them. Wouldn’t work on many blogs with few comments (or wouldn’t be the effort to add it) but on blogs with lots of comments like Engadget gets it’d have an impact.
Interesting to see one of the top blogs reinventing itself like this. What do you think of the redesign?
PS – in terms of advertising – the main thing I notice about the new design at a first glance is that it seems to have a lot less ads on the main page in the content area. From memory they had quite a few of them (mainly AdSense).
11 Responses to “Engadget Redesign” - Add Yours
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September 18th, 2006 10:01 pm
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September 18th, 2006 11:20 pm
previous design was better.
Now is a little hard to read it because its with.
That’s my opinion, maybe you think something else.
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September 18th, 2006 11:33 pm
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Tony of Bachelor cooking
September 19th, 2006 2:37 am
the Webslog blog stable looked much better in the bottom than the side.. The whole space looks cluttered. But it makes good space sense. Rather then filling it with ads, they are putting up ads for their own real estate and spreading out the Get Paid per Impressions Ads
Geeky Corner
September 19th, 2006 3:07 am
I don’t like it… it’s loading very slow only to me or to others too?
Sid
September 19th, 2006 6:54 am
I recently started reading your blog and I am really amazed at the kind of hardwork and dedication you have shown which led to your success. I have started a blog related to nice software (mainly small size), I have not implemented any advertisement to it yet because I’m pretty new. But I am learning from you. thanks for such a great informative site.
Sid
Lay That Floor
September 19th, 2006 7:46 am
I am not a huge fan of the redesign. In fact it makes me want to run the other way.
Fred
September 19th, 2006 12:40 pm
Loading very slowly … must be that “Dynamic content width” thing..
Ed
September 19th, 2006 4:25 pm
The content inside the “Breaking News” column does not seem to be aligned when Firefox is used.
Wayde Christie
September 20th, 2006 10:30 am
The image scaling is a fantastic idea!
Baseball Village
April 20th, 2009 5:50 am
Well researched site – will look to incorporate some of your ideas into my site.
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