Welcome to the new-look Head for Points

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• David D says:

  18 Aug18 August 20:53

  Rob and team, I have to say the new format is quite nice. Certainly better than I expected. Overall, it looks clean and crisp. I see others have made similar suggestions for potential improvements which involve a different banner colour background to enhance this and depending on if it works having the right pane hold once it reaches the last item with the left and central panes continuing to scroll as present, will help with your ads.

• John says:

  18 Aug18 August 21:44

  Prefer the old design but I don’t hate this one. The background needs to be not white.

  • Rob says:

    18 Aug18 August 22:23

    I’m trying to work out if it is actually ‘pure white’. To be honest, it had never crossed my mind that some sites I thought were white had a smidgen of grey mixed in. You could be right – looking at, say, economist.com it appears slightly more muted despite being ‘white’. We will investigate! Very easy to change.

• Chris says:

  18 Aug18 August 22:20

  Call a spade a spade.

  This redesign looks utterly terrible. Sorry.

  • Rob says:

    18 Aug18 August 22:33

    Very constructive Chris, thanks. When we sit down later in the week to talk through the feedback and decide on what will be tweaked we’ll be sure to take this into account.

    • blenz101 says:

      18 Aug18 August 22:44

      Burn as the kids say! I know I previously mentioned making the HfP staff stand out. Another tweak in the comments section is maybe not to have all the usernames in block capitals, reading in block caps is just harder and isn’t as aesthetically pleasing.

      • Jen says:

        19 Aug19 August 04:02

        Block capitals is also terrible for screen readers.

• The Streets says:

  18 Aug18 August 22:52

  The update is fresh and clean and works well for me… well done! Many people are reluctant to change and will find something to moan about but they will still come back tomorrow

• Alex says:

  18 Aug18 August 22:56

  I hate the new look. Looks far worse than before (and I am under 30). But if you like it, that’s all that’s important.

  • Rob says:

    18 Aug18 August 23:06

    Tell us what bits you don’t like Alex and we’ll look at it. You wouldn’t have hit puberty when the old design was first released onto the market 🙂

    • callum says:

      19 Aug19 August 04:32

      I think it looks very cluttered (I’ve always hated the “modern” style of having lots of black text on a plain white background with minimal-to-no separation), is too bright (though I know you’ve already said you’re looking at toning down the white) and on my desktop the article is annoyingly narrow with tonnes of wasted space on the sides (though that seems to happen a lot on my small screen (13.3″) with these templates).

      But as I don’t say it nearly enough (I need to try and post more when I agree with you, not just when I don’t!), the great writing here more than makes up for it so if you’re happy then all is good! I don’t doubt I’ll get used to it.

• babyg says:

  18 Aug18 August 23:00

  everything is too SQUARE, it reminds me of when windows squared everything off, plus its too white, my chrome browser doesn’t seem to jump to the right section..

  • Rob says:

    18 Aug18 August 23:08

    Everything was square before! In fact, even squarer because the images on the home page were actually squares and are now rectangles. We’ve even removed a few of the square adverts.

    There’s not really much we can make round, however.

• PAL says:

  18 Aug18 August 23:12

  Quite like it – good fresh look. Small points – I seem to see “less” on my screen (iPhone 7) in comments – I also preferred the box/separation I guess which ties in to too much white. Email box is too small. Can it not go under?

  • Rob says:

    19 Aug19 August 00:45

    Comments re separation noted. However, we removed some elements of separation – and are planning on removing others – to try to reduce the amount of scrolling needed.

• Matt says:

  18 Aug18 August 23:33

  I like the new design in iOS safari, looks similar to the times and guardian apps. I do miss the old landmark header though.

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