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The Pop website has been up and running for nearly five years now. The original site was designed for occasional updates on what was happening with the magazine – for those that remember, it had the ‘desk elements’ around the edges, like the highlighter and the matchbox car. From there Drew built the site you’ve known for the last two years – it was better for delivering news, had the Shoutbox and a little more functionality. The new site that you’re now seeing has been in development for nearly 12 months. Rick and I started talking details on it about this time last year, then in April we sketched out exactly what we wanted and the functions we were hoping for. Then, working with Drew, we’ve been testing and creating the site over the last three months. The last week, Drew has been working his ass off (like, working through the night for the last four nights) to get this ready to go live today.
This current design, we hope, will allow us to deliver more news (more often), be faster loading and more intuitive than the old one… But this is like a version 2.5 – it’s a major shift from what we had but we’re only part of the way to getting what we want.
Rick, Drew and I really hope you’re into the new design and we’d love to get feedback from you. Hit the comments field and let us know what you think!
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hi guys,
Not sure if anyone has reported it or not, but the formatting for the text in each story appears a little wack. I get one word in each row, makings the pages really long.
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I’m running IE 7.0.5730.13 if it helps.
Looks great otherwise.
i’m in the same boat with the formatting.
all good here with safari and firefox.
love the thumbs of older posts, looks nice and clean… top stuff
Nice work guys. Great functionality still with the same feel as the site we know and love.
I’m into it. Slicker than before and some great new functionality.
Had the same issue as Peter first thing this morning but fine now (IE7).
Hey guys, thanks so much for the feedback. You’ve run into a bug in Internet Explorer. You can read more about it here if you’re interested. I’ve updated the code to hopefully fix it. But the best thing you can do is start using FireFox. Download it here for free and enjoy the web the way it’s meant to be.
Thanks again, please let me know if you see anything else starnge.
just your strange spelling Drew
Awesome work guys, so good to see the updated site. Still ‘feels’ the same, but with much more content to get through. Well done.
Thanks so much for the feedback and encouragement guys, it’s been a slog getting it done. Thanks for being patient as we work through all the bugs to.
Hey guys, great new website however having the same problem as Peter and Samm. Everything else appears to be working very well and looks fantastic.
Cheers!!
What do you all think about the scrolling news ticker at the top? Is it annoying? Functional?
hey guys,
looks good…
did you ditch the big news banner already?
I think the scrolling news thing is a little overwhelming as both ads nearby are moving as well. It kind of takes attention away form the advertisers.
good work on the revamp, though.
I’m using IE 6.0.2800.1106 and it’s fine (at work, home is firefox all the way)
Great work so far, scrolling news is always good to save on space with the newest stories.
I like the new site but I think there is too much going on. Simple is better. Not really into the scrolling banner. Once you guys iron out all the creases it will be sweet. Good work.