Yahoo considers another home page redesign
Yahoo is testing another redesign of its home page, emphasizing news feeds and applications as well as search results.
Yahoo's latest home page redesign (click for larger version).
(Credit: Yahoo)The company is testing the most recent design with certain users, and while it's somewhat similar to Yahoo's current look and feel, it is a bit of a departure from the most recent plan for a redesign shared by Yahoo in March, as noted by PaidContent.org. For example, the new design calls out the top 10 search results at a given time in the upper right-hand corner of the site, a box that appears at the absolute bottom of Yahoo's current site and that was absent from the March mock-ups.
Yahoo also dropped the gray color on the left side rail of the page in favor of a white background, while also adding more choices for users to add feeds from their favorite Web sites and services. That rail also includes applications developed for the Yahoo page that let users check auction results on eBay, for example.
No time frame was given for the arrival of the new design, but further tweaks are probably not out of the question. Yahoo also announced that its mobile site redesign is out of beta and rolling out to a wider audience.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom. 
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My Way is No Popups, No Ads, No Kidding. When MyWay first launched they boasted their portal would load faster than Yahoo because it was ad free and they would calculate and say how fast it loaded on the page.
After Google made GMail I switched to GMail and it is going great. I use Google Toolbar whenever I'm in Mozilla Firefox (don't use IE so don't need IE version of Google Toolbar that is Windows only) , Apple Safari or Google Chrome. I have Google Gears and use Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
I hardly IM anymore but when I do AIM is my primary IM client -- sometimes I've used Yahoo Messenger but not as often so yeah I hardly use Yahoo.
I am saddened and angered with Yahoo for shuttering Geocities and at the same time am ready to take the final plunge in abandoning Yahoo forever. With Geocities gone there will be absoiutely nothing left linking me to Yahoo.
As for their site redesign it looks good but even that is not going to bring me back to them. Only way is for them to reverse this decision to close Geocities while their is still time.
Otherwise for me it is bye bye Yahoo forever. I'll just use Google and a handful of other providers I like to get me my web hosting, e-mail, etc.
- by onetheycallgsk May 27, 2009 10:51 PM PDT
- I still haven't gotten the redesign over here in southern Arizona. It's still the same design it's been for years.
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