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Summary: Really like the new design. Has a very nice feel.Well done - remember how much work it was last time.

By Andrew Donoghue for Earthed | March 17, 2010 -- 08:11 GMT (01:11 PDT)

Really like the new design. Has a very nice feel.

Well done - remember how much work it was last time. This new design definitely fits with the times - as in less is more. You have taken away some of the functionality but made a site which feels much more coherent.

Still finding my way around the community stuff - doesn't seem that easy to create a new blog for example but haven't had my morning coffee yet - but think it feels sleek and clean.

Would also be great to get those blogging tools we had been asking for since the last redesign - insert link tool, add picture etc - but hopefully that is on the wish list from tech at some point.

Well done again - hopefully this new design will give me the impetus to keep my blog update a little more regularly!

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Morning Andrew, What a nice surprise! If you click your name at the top right and then click blog on the bottom left you'll see 'add post' as an option.

roger andre

17 March, 2010 08:58

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I'd echo Andrew's comments. I like the faster loading and, generally speaking, the design but I too struggled to find where to start a new blog entry. I'm also a little sad that new blogs don't appear on the front page.

I also find the fixed-width design makes the site the widest of any that I customarily use by quite a margin, requiring a browser resize when I go that tab, and back again when I leave it, which is a bit of a faff.....

Manek Dubash

17 March, 2010 11:01

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hey Roger.
Think I have spotted a bug as when I click on my name it takes me to the same page as if I had clicked on "Edit Profile".
i.e http://www.zdnet.co.uk/member-services/edit-profile/

I think this was causing the confusion as I am guessing clicking my name should take me to the screen I get to after clicking on "my blog" on this edit profile page.

i.e http://www.zdnet.co.uk/member-services/blog/

But even this feels like an extra step as what I really want to see when I click on my name is my blog page which is this one:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/earthed-10000031/

Andrew Donoghue

17 March, 2010 19:11

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