Welcome to TreeHugger 2.0
by Nick Aster, San Francisco on 12.21.06
Drum roll..... this is it folks, the new spanking clean and super fancy TreeHugger 2.0. We've been working our tails off to get the site better looking, better organized, and more user friendly and what you see here is what we've come up with. We've got better, more clear categorization, some cleaner design, nifty post "hoppers" on the side to help you navigate, and a few more things to come!
Have fun poking around and let us know if anything's broken (as if that could possibly happen). I really hope you like it and want to send some special shouts of thanks out to Michael Graham Richard, our chief editor, Eva Jacobus who helped in the migration, Federico Silvka - the master designer from Barcelona, as well as Jessica Root, our priceless manager and Graham Hill for busting this whole thing together.
Note from Michael: And of course, we all want to thank our excellent media architect, master of all things technical and of actually implementing all these fancy ideas that we come up with (and coming up with a lot of them himself), Nick Aster. We've all been working really hard lately, but I'm sure that he had an extra dose of that. Thanks Nick!
Hey,
Love the site and new design. You probably are on it but there are lots of images missing on the main page at the mo.
Nick, London, UK.
The new site looks great. And keep up the good articles.
Bravo folks, well done on launching a fabulously feature rich site. Great stuff...
Namaste
Al
Bravo folks, well done on launching a fabulously feature rich site. Great stuff...
Namaste
Al
no pics on firefox 2.0
Ooh. Very nice guys (much better than your comp a while ago :-D)
Super snazzy, nice and clean. good implementation of the post jumpers. and most important - your articles are right in front.
Only one thing bothers me. are all the posts equidistant down the page? the white space under the posts is just a little bothersome for people who prefer the mouse wheel.
Oh. and VERY cool logo. I would have been sad if the old typography left.
Pics work fine for me, firefox 2.0.0.1
Oh and, by the way, it's lovely
Tiny tiny tiny font for the comments! Owwww!
Also, Typekey says "The site you're trying to comment on has not signed up for this feature. Please inform the site owner." when I try to sign in to comment now.
Many things will be tweaked, including the comment fonts.
I think it looks good and less cluttered. My only problem is that I don't use my browser window at 100% (Google desktop is on the side) and have to scroll sideways rather then the design resizing.
Otherwise it's all good.
I like it, some minor things though:
I like the icons on the left and right columns, but i think you should adopt different colour schemes as they tend to disappear into the background for my liking.
and the rip paper effect, it just seems out of place...
I dig the new design. It looks very cool. Though I'd have to agree that there is a little too much space between posts. But BRAVO, great job!
The link is broken to check out info on our boy Jacob! I didn't check anybody else.
http://www.treehugger.com/authors/index.php?author=jacob
Otherwise, I am on one hand totally psyched about the look but on the other hand some of it seems a little cluttered. Why's it so skinny still?
YAY! The comments are no longer buried! Thanks guys! I like the screen jump feature, is there any way to have a control to jump up as well as down though?
I like it alot. Very Clean. Treehugger is my home page and I thought I'd done something wrong till I saw this post. Whew!
Only thing so far? I'm on Firefox 2 and some jpegs don't show. Not sure if the two are related but just in case.
Great work, regardless!
Ya I found that. Pretty cool. I still think they should be higher. By looking at the page I'm guessing the extra space is from the navigation. Also when looking at a comment the green header is gone, is it suppose to be? The video looks kind of silly floating all alone. Also the side bars shouldn't have so much space between them. Like the top treehugger searches, then tons of blank space then the comments. All in all I like the change. Good job. The comment boxes look cool.
Change is good :)
I like it, except for the "Don't stop". Don't is a negative word.
Our brains process negatives like this: In order for one the "not spill the milk" your brain has picture spilling the milk first.
How about changing your "Don't stop" to a positive like Keep Reading?
Looks fantastic - A great way to start 2007.
Looks excellent, but horizontal scrolling in Firefox 2.0 800x600 is really not a good thing. I'll probably be sticking to the rss feed until that's fixed, if ever.
I second the comment about the ripped paper being out of place. Just doesn't look good at all.
um, yeah...IT ROCKS! Great design and easy to find stuff. Some of the best content around too. Kudos to the whole team.
Nice. A nice balance between the original and the original prototype 2.0,although the sidebar features are split far down the page....i still think there's a lot of adware taking up space where there should be content and vice versa, but, excellent overall.
Also when hovering a link the color of it become such a light grey its unreadable ...
I love your site and what you are doing so please accept this criticism as honest feedback.
I hate adds that move, please take them off your site. I feel like I am being taken advantage of, my attention is naturally drawn to moving objects. It is more difficult to concentrate on understanding what I am reading when there are moving "objects" in my line of site.
Also, I think you have too many shades of green in the layout.
I love the ripped paper thing on the thumbnail pages - slick implementation!
Looks great on IE on my work laptop. Looks terrible on my Mac in both Camino and Safari.
Ugh visually unappealing. The old was much more stimulating to these eyes.
Well I think the jump bar is useless and takes up space. Use your dang scroll wheel. It also messes up the page flow. It makes tons of white space. The sidebars have too much, they should be independent from the content.
Also while the main page and content uses no tables, the main menu does. I can't figure out why. Get rid of the table, and the menu is quite bad. Also the page fails validation. Meaning that it is not accessible to those with disabilities. Or less accessible.
I think it's great, but I can hardly read the commends do to the tiny font. My old eyes just can't do that small a font.
I forgot to mention that it looks great! It's much better than the first new version you showed us a while ago, and I think it's much better than the regular old version, too. Good job folks!
Yummy! Me likey.
Totally awesome, but hate the fact that the darn articles are always below the fold! Why can't ya'll put the videos on another page?
How do I turn off / disable the "reload=true" in the url? I keep losing open articles, and my position on the page!!!
Frustrated..
Dave
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editor note: You can just change "true" to "false" and press enter.
Still very very painfully slow to load with lots of bright flashy blinking stuff, but now with even harder to read text. It seems to vary from article to article, but the links usually have virtually no contrast with the background color and are very nearly completely unreadable. Default tiny tiny font forcing me to hit control-+ all the time, too. The back-end tech might be better, but the appearance is if anything worse. Especially the unreadable link text, just beige-holes in the middle of the text.