September 7, 2016 at 6:13 pm
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.
October 26, 2016 at 2:43 pm
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
October 26, 2016 at 4:11 pm
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
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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