Comments on: Welcome to the new CNET

The yellow and green CNET pages are history as we have officially launched our new site design and several new features to millions of users.

[The Sheepshagger]

One huge miss, in my humble opinion, is that there no longer is a box on the news page to input stock ticker symbols to get daily news of stories not featured on the news page. As a daily reader (often multiple reads daily) I truly hope this was an over-sight. I've always found C-Net to be provide fair an balanced news items and I suspect that will still continue. That being said, I'll probably use your site less and less and migrate towards other sites that suit my one-stop-shopping needs.

[dedalus6]

Great new design. Look fantastic and much simplified layout and page structure. Really loving it. Although I miss the yellow logo, but it's great to see the progress. Cheers!

[tech_crazy]

1) Too many blogs instead of actual news. The blogs often do not have tech content but useless personal content or something that generates page views. The news are often near copies of previous news. Too many examples to list here.
2) The print function had been missing but seems to have been added again. It doesn't always work on firefox - the actual page goes missing.
3) The main section is too small, only almost 1/3rd of the page width - cluttered with blogs and ads
4) In print mode, it does not show the printable page itself in the browser, directly sends to print driver.

In my opinion, the functionality has been going down the drain, it's mostly eye candy and trying to show a hip image. That is not why fans come to a tech news site. If this is not addressed, sadly, long time die-hard fans like me will soon jump ship.

[koala]

In general, the new look is fine. What is NOT fine is the conversion of ratings to a "Star" system (especially without the old 1-10 ratings being available and without any explanation of why the change was made)! In my view, the old system, which provided more precision, was much more helpful.

[Me430Sport]

Like the new look but tell CBS to keep the politics out of it.

[pasch18]

Excelent new page... i love. They had to do a time ago back, but is better now than never.

HI from Dominican Republic.

[chowbiz]

You noted that speed and simplicity were the primary factors for the change. I agree that you've succeeded in both. But the loss of the look (particularly the yellow/green) means that CNET now looks too much like every other 'slick' site--not a good thing, in my opinion. But the content makes CNET the only website I visit daily, so, keep doing what it is you keep doing to make me come back!

[webdog10]

Dan, PLEASE provide the unique and distinctive orange and green theme as a skin. As others have said, cnet now looks like every other media site.

[`WarpKat]

I'll be frank (no offense to anyone named Frank): this new layout makes me want to stick two fingers down my throat and cough up a spleen.

It looks way too much like PCWorld and ZDNet had a lovechild together. Incest, anyone?

I'll stick to RSS now - kthxbai.

[Luckyy]

Terrible. The old website was simple to use, informative, and the questions and answers and forums were easy to find. The redesign is impossible to read, is chock full of product advertisements and I can't find the answers or questions. Simplicity? You got to be kidding me.

[tedpjr]

the looks are good - clean and simple, so it doesn't distract from the main reason for visiting the site - technology news & reviews. But where is the music? Downloads.com is all software, no MP3's or articles about the artists?

[Shagate]

Bland, bring back the YELLOW!

[K177135]

It's looks boring now..I miss the old colors that stood out for the rest of the other sites out there. And why can't I get to my profile?

[gamebittk]

Long time CNET fan here.
This is a great new design and a great move forward. CNET was one of the first of it's kind, and hopefully, it will remain the number one online tech magazine.

[handofblood]

Honestly, if you stopped the top banner from extending across the whole screen, it'd look so much better. It's useless putting it there if there's nothing filling it up.

[GlamorousGrammar]

I like the overall look and feel, but please add an option to choose font sizes. Changing the font size via the browser sometimes mucks up your pretty layout!

[solosteve]

You used to have all the links to the various CNET podcasts in one spot on the front page (very easy to find). Now they appear to be scattered all over the site (not so easy to find). I really like many of the podcasts that I (used to) find here. Possibly you can fix this? Other than that, I like the new look.

[ronnopiano]

Everyone has their own ideas of beauty, form & function. I think the new CNET site is very well done.

[jigmeg]

looks like so many others, new logo is not so good. but if it's really faster that's always a plus. thanks for trying!

[erik4096]

I am sad. Not because of the new look, but because it looks like Cnet has turned its focus away from Tech news reporting and investigation to feature blogs. That may not be a bad thing to most, but for me I can find more than enough bloggers to give me their opinions on you-name-it. Why do I need Cnet anymore?