Simple Talk Website Redesign

  • Does anyone appreciate the new design of the Simple Talk website?

    I for one thought the original design showed good typography, was distinctive, authoritative and conducive to browsing.

    It's had a makeover that gives it the style and panache of an instruction manual - in fact it's indistinguishable from Redgate's product documentation (and any other documentation that uses the same content management system). Documentation is intentionally plain, uncluttered an unexciting in layout: why apply that to a magazine site?

    I feel a sense of loss... and, as a Redgate user, I'm seeing ever more screen space overtaken by huge sans-serif fonts with acres of white space. I wonder when sql server central will succumb to the red-and-black treatment.

  • I pretty much agree wth what you said i was quite taken a back when I frst saw it the other week. It seems very wide and bland to me and difficult to concentrate on what you are actually looking for

  • andrew.ing (9/7/2016)


    I wonder when sql server central will succumb to the red-and-black treatment.

    They kinda almost did a couple of times. The last time was when they started to make all the icons look like "metro" buttons and were talking about a more "metro look" to keep up with the proverbial Jones. I'm personally tickled that they didn't go that route because, even though it has a minor problem here and there, this forum was well ahead of the times when it was designed and continues to be a flower in the desert.

    I've got a bad feeling that the new anti-spam system they're working on will also be the end of the current beauty on this site.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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