Saturday, May 4th 2013
Presenting the All New TechPowerUp
Welcome to the all new TechPowerUp, a refreshing redesign of your favorite place on the web for PC hardware and technology.
Our brand new site design modernizes the site, makes it more usable, while not deviating from our focus on simplicity, without confusing it with minimalism. The site features clean and bright elements that are ready for ultra high-definition displays, and devices with high-density screens, such as iPad with Retina display, and the new breed of smartphones with 1080p displays. Our site not only scales up with some of these devices, but also its elements keep up with high-density displays.
Our new site design introduces a suite of new features to our main sections, including Reviews, Downloads, Case-mod Gallery, and our four databases. The Reviews section gets more usable summary lists, the Downloads section makes it easier to find what you're looking for. The Case-mod gallery is optimized for high-resolution images, and features an improved gallery view. We've always considered our four databases - Reviews, VGA BIOS, GPU, and CPU, our strengths, and optimized each with unique sets of new features that greatly improve usability. All the content is timed to the users' local time.
Work on the all new TechPowerUp began in early-2013, and was designed by taking inputs and feedback from all of our departments. In April, we opened the new design up for testing by the TechPowerUp Forums community, and took a great deal of feedback from it.
We're extremely happy to launch our new interface to the web, designed by everyone who holds the site dear.
Our brand new site design modernizes the site, makes it more usable, while not deviating from our focus on simplicity, without confusing it with minimalism. The site features clean and bright elements that are ready for ultra high-definition displays, and devices with high-density screens, such as iPad with Retina display, and the new breed of smartphones with 1080p displays. Our site not only scales up with some of these devices, but also its elements keep up with high-density displays.
Work on the all new TechPowerUp began in early-2013, and was designed by taking inputs and feedback from all of our departments. In April, we opened the new design up for testing by the TechPowerUp Forums community, and took a great deal of feedback from it.
We're extremely happy to launch our new interface to the web, designed by everyone who holds the site dear.
136 Comments on Presenting the All New TechPowerUp
I detest that when you click on the Discussion (Comments) from a news headline that new format for comments stinks I want the old Forum pages back.
You'd think with so many negative comments about it from me, you and others they'd fix it, wouldn't you?
Also, directly asking about the logic behind this design just gets ignored, too. Nice.
And we need that one click forum access back, as well.
It's not like "people are just stupid" and hate change.I don't think anybody here
is against a better looking layout, It's just: this is not it.
and I guess it's a matter of Time/Energy consumed for this new design and perhaps
personal pride for ignoring all complains loyal members and long time readers making
here. Well, what can I do? except maybe looking for my daily tech news elsewhere,
because, It's HARD to read , dammit!
Also, why visited links don't change color (purple)? is it a glitch or my browser's at fault here?
(chrome 26)
Legibility is vastly improved.
An unfortunate downside is that it affects all fonts everywhere on TPU, so it means to improve legibility in one area, the design style of the whole site is worsened. But there you do... crap design not fixed and not listening to user feedback has consequences.
** EDIT **
Installed them all, but would recommend Stylebot as the simplest to use. How?
1./ Load up tpu front page
2./ Click on the stylebot logo "CSS"
3./ Click on the select button (top LHS of CSS menu with the "mouse arrow over a box" icon)
4./ Select offending (offensive font) paragraph on tpu webpage
5./ Change font family to Helvetica/arial on the CSS menu
6./ Profit!
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Thanks again for the app tip.