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| TitanPa |
Posted - 09/02/2010 : 03:47:56
WTF happened to IMDB? Its hard to follow. Why did they redo it??? |
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| Joe Blevins |
Posted - 10/03/2010 : 00:01:34
Here's a weird thing: Firefox and IE are showing me two different versions of the same page. Firefox has the older (and, to me, clearer) design. IE has the new one. I'm not sure this grouping on filmography pages is much of a boon. For one thing, they've made the print bigger and added TONS of white space. To me, the redesign is all about big pictures and big print taking up room so that the reader has to do more clicking and scrolling to get to the useful stuff. And I'm going to have to disagree about having the links all at the bottom instead of in the margin. They're all tucked away down there, so if you didn't go looking for them you'd never find them.
I have no choice but to get used to the new IMDb, but I worry about what the next "improvement" will look like. I imagine a movie's main page will have just two items: the poster and a headshot of the top-billed star (whose name will be listed in bold 40-point font). Everything else will be hidden in sub-menus.
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| Sean |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 22:31:09
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Originally posted by Joe Blevins
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Joe Blevins
UPDATE: Oh dear sweet Lord.
The IMDb is celebrating its 20th anniversary by becoming totally incomprehensible. They started by messing up the pages for individual cast/crew members, and now they've messed up the movie pages, too. Go. Look. See for yourself.
I don't see anything new, unless you're referring to the change they made a few weeks ago. I kinda got used to it.
Hmm. At least on my browser, the pages for people were changed a few weeks ago, as you say, but the pages for the movies just changed within the last few days.
Here's the problem: the pages are so top-heavy with giagantic pictures and video clips that there's no room for actual useful information at a glance anymore. Or less room, anyway. And now you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom, past all that useless filler, to get to the links which used to be right there in the margin when you first opened a page. To get to the actual information that the IMDb contains, you have to do more clicking and scrolling. To me, that's bad web design.
I'm guessing it's a caching issue, that change came for me a few weeks ago.
Anyway, I agree about it being 'top heavy', I'd like the photos/videos lower down and more essential information at the top. Having said that, now that all the links are at the bottom it's a simple case of holding down the Page Down button for half a second to get there, and see all links on the screen at one time rather than having to scroll up and down to get the one I want (as used to be the case when they were in the margin on the previous design).
I do find the grouping in Filmography an improvement though (on actor pages).
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| Sean |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 22:28:45
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
BLECH!
Way too graphic, and all the compacted lists on the artist pages makes finding anything difficult. PLUS the stopped putting quotes around TV series so now if you don't look carefully for the "(TV)" bit you'll not immediately realize it isn't a movie credit.
BLECH!
They're grouped/sorted by type. E.g, Actor: Movie, Actor: TV, Director etc. There's no doubt as to what's what. |
| Joe Blevins |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 16:55:33
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Joe Blevins
UPDATE: Oh dear sweet Lord.
The IMDb is celebrating its 20th anniversary by becoming totally incomprehensible. They started by messing up the pages for individual cast/crew members, and now they've messed up the movie pages, too. Go. Look. See for yourself.
I don't see anything new, unless you're referring to the change they made a few weeks ago. I kinda got used to it.
Hmm. At least on my browser, the pages for people were changed a few weeks ago, as you say, but the pages for the movies just changed within the last few days.
Here's the problem: the pages are so top-heavy with giagantic pictures and video clips that there's no room for actual useful information at a glance anymore. Or less room, anyway. And now you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom, past all that useless filler, to get to the links which used to be right there in the margin when you first opened a page. To get to the actual information that the IMDb contains, you have to do more clicking and scrolling. To me, that's bad web design. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 15:41:22
BLECH!
Way too graphic, and all the compacted lists on the artist pages makes finding anything difficult. PLUS the stopped putting quotes around TV series so now if you don't look carefully for the "(TV)" bit you'll not immediately realize it isn't a movie credit.
BLECH! |
| Sean |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 03:54:42
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Originally posted by Joe Blevins
UPDATE: Oh dear sweet Lord.
The IMDb is celebrating its 20th anniversary by becoming totally incomprehensible. They started by messing up the pages for individual cast/crew members, and now they've messed up the movie pages, too. Go. Look. See for yourself.
I don't see anything new, unless you're referring to the change they made a few weeks ago. I kinda got used to it. |
| Joe Blevins |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 03:22:35
UPDATE: Oh dear sweet Lord.
The IMDb is celebrating its 20th anniversary by becoming totally incomprehensible. They started by messing up the pages for individual cast/crew members, and now they've messed up the movie pages, too. Go. Look. See for yourself. |
| Joe Blevins |
Posted - 09/03/2010 : 23:59:36
They can't/won't stop messing with the front page. It seems to be rearranged -- and made even less clear -- every few weeks now. |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 09/02/2010 : 17:31:42
It must be that they hired young turk website designers. Pah. I don't go there much these days. |
| clay |
Posted - 09/02/2010 : 04:38:39
I hadn't noticed--EXCEPT they are eager to get you to go for IMDBPro. |
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