A Few Words About Our New Look

I think it looks great!

Your CSS is all messed up in Safari... Half the page is blank! Other browsers, even worse display errors. Would have expected this would not make it past the dev team on such a high-profile endeavor.

Looks good, but the top of the page turns into a gigantic dark gray bar (Firefox on a Mac with ad blocking enabled). There's either a huge banner ad embedded in your homepage header (not cool), or a graphic the ad blocker thinks is an ad (not cool).
Please keep that cleaner so it's easier to navigate. Thanks!

While your new main page is tolerable, when we open any/all articles, including YOURS, we find the article mid-page with a left margin list of whatever subjects both above and below your article. Massive waste of space = room for more income generating adds.
Use it or lose U.S.

On one of the pages in your website I was hovering my mouse pointer over the top main topics like Home, Technology, Innovation, etc and each was showing a list of subtopics. I saw that the Verizon ad kept hiding the subtopics as i hovered over the main topics.

I do not like the way advertisements fly over the news topics i am reading.

love it, but it's not compatible with OS X Camino, a popular Mac browser. The microsoft heading is out of whack on your lead story.

This redesign is terrible. Its not even REMOTELY easy to navigate, all the main page stories from your old website are now in different sections meaning I have to hunt for some articles that may catch my eye.

Thanks but I'll be going to your competitors. At least their not going after the "facebook" look. Cluttered and confusing.

On the home page you had summaries of news items on the left hand side listed in time order. If you clicked on more you would get multiple screen of new briefs that occurred yesterday. Even though most of it was a series of repeats it was helpful in planing a day.What was this removed and i feel very strongly it should be given back and improved by getting rid of the repetition. Thanks

The best I can say about the new web design is that it isn't as bad as the new MarketWatch. Some of the "clutter" you removed were stories I might not have thought to read had they been buried under the de-cluttered surface.

One irritant is the roll-over pop-ups that block the stories below the menu. I'm strong enough to click someting I want to open. Still, the whole ting isn't as bad as it could have been...

How about changing the font on the site? I cannot stand it.

I'll be spending most of my time at CNNMoney.com now because I don't like the "new look". It was fine before. Oh well, another good thing goes bye-bye. Have a good summer everyone!

What's the underlying platform and CMS?

Came back this morning and the new page feels too much like the table of contents in your print edition. One VERY LARGE STORY on top and then scroll way way down to the bottom to find the rest of the news (assuming there is any).
It's set up a little bit like the NY Times page, which is decent, but again too much like print.
I'd like to see more emphasis on the content, instead of having to seek it out at the bottom. And if you're emphasizing more current news then adopt more of a blog style, most recent item on top. Maybe keep your "top story" off to the left or something.
And again this morning the top 1/3 of the screen is taken up by an ad and the thick gray header you've built. You're burying your content. Hint -- don't do that.

I'm sorry but the new site is not easy to navigate. the old site was a lot easier with less clutter. I like how the old site had everything broken into there appropriate sections and how the breaking news was split from the others.

As mentioned above, someone needs to test the site with browsers other than IE. I'm using Chrome and the top half of the page just shows links along the left edge - you have to scroll down quite a bit to get to content.

Thanks loads for 'improving' things. I thought only the dips at microsoft did such things, but I guess the disease is spreading. No, I don't like it. Very clunky and unpleasant to view. Definitely not 'Businessweek'. The geniuses at Newsweek 'improved' their print version in a similar way and I won't be renewing my subscription there when it runs out next week.

As one of your younger readers, I think the new design is great! Seems like some people find change difficult but the site is definitely less cluttered. Navigation is easy, text is nice and simple - I will definitely continue to visit. Can't wait for the apps in the fall.

As a veteran of lots of redesigns, this one is pretty good, even if the top of the page feels pretty heavy now. I'm using Firefox and things look fine. As for everyone saying "This is too hard to navigate" -- you'll get used to it, just like users always do.

I'm not a fan of the new design. It has many view flaws that should have been tested and corrected before rollout. In addition, you lost a lot of good information on the homepage that is more difficult to find now. I would suggest moving back to the old system until the kinks are truly worked in this one!

faster scrolling on the feature strip please and the ability to see everything on the feature strip on one page would be so usefull

Faster scrolling on the feature strip please and the ability to see everything on the feature strip on one page would be so useful.

Several things:

1. whatsyourstoryidea is not easy to find - your own site search did not find it. Neither that, nor "John Byrne Blog" :/

2. Too much multimedia / flash design, not enough permalinks

3. Too much doubleclick

4. Screen real estate above the fold is wasted.

5. Too much information (on homepage)

WRT combination of content with advertising, see http://gaggle.info/post/141/on-the-web-its-freedom-2-publishing-0 (the bifurcation of ads vs. content seems very "old media" [anachronistic]).

Not have read any of the above comments, I would (if I were you) halt the present redesign and start over. Actually EBRACE the ethos of the web, instead of simply taking baby steps in the general direction. It's time to completely break apart from the old-world chains of old media + advertising agencies like Doubleclick (GOOG).

I think the old design was much better. It was less cluttered and the title fonts were hierarchied in size by importance and relevance to the magazine theme, while their no-nonsense style of big fonts on a white background made life easier - that is what made Google what it is, not the its purported competence. The new design looks older than the previous one, more cluttered and difficult to navigate, though I understand an effort has been made to put more info on the front page. Also, why have you buried the link to the feedback page in the middle of a video? I spent a lot of time searching for it, maybe you should put it in a profound place in the main page?

I like this website!It is elegant!Your site also give us a chance to talk our ideas or comments.

Mamat Rohimat
Founder The Great Investor

Generally nice, although the lower section, below the center bin, where the different sections are listed, have a disorderly look. I would suggest to have the two items with pictures on the first column, and the sectional content on the second and third columns.

Hello John. Just my 2 cents. First when i saw the new page i didn't like it. It looks sombre, with all the dark colours, and it looks like it has lost some of it's optimism, approachability, openess and entrepreneurialism. Then i looked at the tool bars at the top, and i really like this as it allows for quicker access to a lot more info, without needing to scroll on any particular page. I suppose i like a lot more features/articles on the home page, at the top - i like what your writers have to say, and also all the varied responses from readers, as well as keeping up to do date with news, also keeping up to date with people's opinions and how they see facts and figures. So yes, i liked the articles, with sub-headings for other articles. It feels like the homepage has shifted to people who buy and sell wealth, and less those who create the businesses - this is just my feeling. The band allows for more info, though i would like the option of 'stop' and 'start'! What is really great about the website, is being able to read the magazine in print, with the website, i can also hear/read also other people's opinions. I also preferrd the lighter blue colours, than dark type font. Okay, i also would have preferred Jim Collins had a more positive cover for his new book.... everybody has different views! I like the video you did explaining the changes, it helped me see the reasoning behind the changes, and benefits for readers. You've obviously done a lot of research on varied readers, and potential new readers, i wish every success with the changes. Good for BW for trying new ideas, options, innovations. It's change, let's see how things go.

My comment is not related to your redesign per se but more to the fact that asking for feedback in this way is old school. The web allows continuous feedback and continuous redesign, so why not take advantage of both? Companies like OpinionLab provide technologies that collect quantitative and qualitative feedback that can be sorted and distributed to the people who need it most, and make feedback/redesign a process rather than a project.

Why did you hide the b-school section? It's one of the few unique things on the site and it's so hard to find now.

Hello John, some more thoughts. Does there need to be only one design/layout? With computers, there is Apple or Windows, even with laptops there are lots of designs, same with cars. Would an innovation be different options to click on? Maybe a BW1 and even BW2. Different readers could prefer different layouts. Another thought, in different spiritual traditions they believe there are energy centres in the body. The old design had a flow from top to botton, including different groups. Maybe the new design, with darker colours at the top, middle and bottom are reflective of what people/businesses could be experiencing, including the emotional rollercoaster. All the best with the innovations. Maybe this is BW's own stimulus plan - hopefully better than the Washington version! :)

Too much stuff is too hard to find and there's too much stuff that's static. I keep on seeing the same stuff in the row of pictures half way down the page (more than halfway), except for featured users. Why not feature more stories? Users need something to use. Any why is so much stuff SO GIGANTIC? Like the first story and the video picture? Give us a break!