CNET Australia's new look!
By Pam Carroll on 01 April 2009
Your thoughts on the new CNET Australia look...
The seasons are changing and so is CNET — we've been trimming the fat to make the site faster and thrown on a whole new wardrobe.
Click the Black/Red switch in the top right corner and choose the colour scheme that you like best: either the sexy red skin or the black and white scheme that's more consistent with our sister CNET sites in the US and UK.
We've altered our menu structure and search functions to help you more easily find the information you're interested in. There are some new features too, including a mobile phone and broadband plan finder that will help you figure out the best carrier or ISP deal for your needs.
Of course all the reviews, videos, podcasts, how-to features and photo galleries that you're familiar with are still here too, but with what we think is a cleaner layout, bigger images and a slicker video player.
The changes you can't see have been wrought by our tech gurus, who have totally rebuilt the back end of the site so that all our pages load significantly faster than before. Yeah!
But changes at CNET are always an on-going thing, so we'll keep tweaking over the next days and weeks to keep making things better. Please help us by looking things over and telling us what you like and what you don't. Much of what you see here is based on the feedback of our beta testers.
So jump in our Forum or the comments section below and have your say! And don't forget to vote in our poll on the right.
Topics: redesign, cnet australia, mobile plans, broadband plans
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Comments (32)
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GregoryO commented on 23/04/2009 17:43
When the old site was active and I would access CNET on a mobile device (such as my cell phone), I would automatically be offered the "mobile" version of CNET, formatted specifically for viewing on small screens...
With the new CNET site, this is not the case and it is always the "full" CNET site that loads instead! -
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JeremyR commented on 06/04/2009 14:35
@adam: you can click on the Stories link in the sub-navigation bar. This is contextual to the category you are in, but on the homepage it is news from all channels. We'll also be changing the wording from Stories to News.
@jake/@lil carlee: understand the lower-case "a" in Australia is grammatically incorrect, but it's inline with the lower case capitalisation of the logo.
@browny: love the Aussie comparison to the red centre! -
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JyeS commented on 06/04/2009 12:21
****ing awesome guys. Great work D-team.
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ChrisM1 commented on 05/04/2009 21:52
Love the new site and this video as well!
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Adam commented on 05/04/2009 19:29
Really is pretty good, best website re-design i have seen in a while, simple but pro.
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JessR commented on 05/04/2009 12:21
I like it! The search bar that comes up with related articles is very useful. I think the option to sort searches by date and popularity/rating (rather than just one or other) would be good too.
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sarge01 commented on 03/04/2009 21:57
The load times i've noticed are faster, the perdictive search is nice and the phone and broadband finder is marvelous. But the black and red look is bad I think. I've purposely avoided the Cnet international sites because of that.
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browny commented on 03/04/2009 17:35
Looks GREAT the red matches our red centre and suits it. Keep up the good work.
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