Sneak peek at our new look
Take a look - Philly.com is developing a new way to find our content. Check out the beta test of our new navigation for the top of Philly.com's news and features pages. Then take our survey and let us know what you think.
Sneak peek at our new look
To our readers:
Philly.com is testing a new way to find content on our site, and we want to know what you think.
As you can see here, we are beta-testing new navigation for the top of Philly.com’s news and features pages. We’re excited about it for several reasons:
- Our new topper uses large drop-down menus, helping readers click directly to content within Philly.com. Now, readers can quickly find popular blogs, stories and inside sections from almost any page on Philly.com.
- The topper itself is much shallower, which allows us to feature content higher on our pages. Important stories, chats, or videos can be linked from the navigation bar itself. The topper has a simpler design that lets our stories take center stage.
- Registered users can sign in directly from any page of the site. Meanwhile, common search terms are easier to find, just one click from any page of the site.
We’ve made a few other tweaks to improve the experience - we eliminated that heavy brown bar on the right side of our pages, for example.
We are proud of the wealth of journalism that we offer on Philly.com, thanks to the skilled and experienced journalists of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. And we hope this will help you find that work more easily.
We’re eager to hear what you think, and what other changes you’d suggest for our site. Please take a look at the new navigation and take the brief survey that will follow.
If you have any further ideas, e-mail us.
We’ll continue to develop this navigation, with your input. We plan to roll it out to Philly.com’s news and features sections this fall.
Thank you for your help, and for reading Philly.com,
The Philly.com team
Ryan Davis, president
Wendy Warren, editor
PS: Big thanks to the team who developed the new topper: Chris Corter, Jill Hoover, Gregg Meyer, Nadya Harvey, Radu Metente, Joe Friend, Kevin Burkett and Chris Meares.
Let us know if this makes it a little easier to find content on the site...
I love it!— HazelGrey
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- MUCH better!
- You guys need a carousel on the main page of the current news stories. Kind of like aol.com does.— PhilMar
- large drop down menus that are activated on a mouseover are a pain, especially when users are trying to access content near the menu and accidentally mouse over link, hiding the content they're attempting to access. It would be better if the menus were toggle by clicking the mouse button. The new layout, however, is much cleaner.
- Thanks for the comments, you guys. Geez, we're still tweaking the mouseover action - we'll take that into account. (Any other thoughts on mouseover from anyone?) And Vinny - sorry you're still unhappy, but this is the start of us getting better. We've got more improvements coming, and we're pretty happy to say that.
- New look? I think you guys can't get this site right. I can't believe you have an app. Often , I have to wait 30 -40 seconds for the homepage to load .Its not my computer either.I have a brand new mac.— Anthony77
- It's a marginal change that's marginally better. On the same theme, lose the margins. They make no sense.
- Beta site a little better, but you guys should adopt to the 6abc model. It's much 'cleaner' and easier to navigate.— The Baron
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- You must remove the auto play videos. I cannot use the site during the day.— SB123
- Again, folks - we really do appreciate your comments on this. We will incorporate them as we launch this topper site-wide.
- Please confirm the autoplay videos will be removed!!!— SB123
