Nigel Atherton
WDC Editor
Reged: 16/05/2006
Posts: 486
Loc: Ministry of Magazines, London
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Hi everyone
Finally, after months of hard work and delays, we now have a new website.
It's way better than the old one (we think!) with a better design, improved navigation and more content which will be added to on a regular basis. We hope you agree.
You'll notice, however, that there are still a few gremlins – typos, broken links and so forth. We are working hard to find and correct them over the next few days so please bear with us.
There's also some additional functionality improvements coming over the coming weeks so please check back regularly.
In the meantime we'd love to hear what you think...
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Roger_Provins
Made-it Man
Reged: 22/10/2005
Posts: 4360
Loc: Gloucester, UK
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I like your new website! It has an air of authoritative reporting whilst still maintaining a friendly face.
I spent quite some time cruising around and there really is a lot of good and interesting reading. I particularly like your inclusion of many full equipment tests. So many on-line versions of paper magazines only give teasers which tend to annoy me rather than tempt me to purchase the magazine.
I found the site attractive, very comprehensive and easy to navigate. Well done 
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Rog
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Benchista
Which Tyler
Reged: 11/08/2000
Posts: 42220
Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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At a very quick first glance, looks much better. The old homepage always had a bit of a "cobbled together as an afterthought" feel, this one seems a lot more together.
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Nick
www.nbrphoto.com
Light and Shade II - the new blog
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miked
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 20/07/2005
Posts: 2601
Loc: Shropshire, England
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It's bright, welcoming, well-focussed and informative. The layout is very good and there is much to enjoy and entertain. Well done. Nice too to find two of my images - which I thought had slipped under the wire - appearing in your readers' galleries.
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Mike.
That's all very well but what does Ken Rockwell have to say on the matter?
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Ian_A
A very, very, very, very evil git
Reged: 02/09/2002
Posts: 9272
Loc: Horwich UK
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It's good work, easy to read and navigate.
Perhaps to finish it off, your own WDC forum? I say this as a constructive suggestion - while on this site I've got my 'Amateur Photographer hat on', the AP forum is what I signed up to. The way things are set up here, I feel it dilutes your 'brand'. 
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Ian A 
"No matter where you go, there you are ... "
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AntSmith
member
Reged: 06/03/2007
Posts: 193
Loc: Essex
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It's certainly streets ahead of the old site.
The two blue WDC animated 'adverts' are quite distracting and foul up the design - in fact the real strengths are what you have inside each of the content panels more than how those panels work together.
A website homepage is a little different to a magazine cover - it doesn't compete visually with other mags next to or on top of it on the shelf - much more important to get a crisp / clear layout - more like a contents page than a cover!! I think a few more - possibly daring - tweaks to really clean-up the layout would be a massive benefit.
I love that you've brought 'latest posts' up to the home page.
Apart from forums there seems little opportunity for interaction. Easy ways to submit letters, reviews, and images from within the site (not via the forums) would be really good and would encourage reader interaction with the editorial offer in advance of submitting.
I hope these thoughts are interesting, I know they might seem to deconstruct a new offer you've worked hard over - but the new site is such a leap forward it's suddenly possible to talk about how it can be improved rather than just staring blankly and thinking 'oh, that's how we used to make webpages'!!!!!
Seriously well done to the whole team
Kind Regards
Ant
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Ant Smith
http://www.antsmith.net
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