Well?

[Henry]

Personally, I prefer the old look to this one, but because of two reasons:

1) The "prose" news style seems harder to follow, but I don't absolutely hate it. Kind of like caviar - if I had to, I'd take it...

2) The page is definitely lacking "spice" in the form of logos or other graphics. There's something about a plain vanilla HTML page that gets to me.

I'm still more for the "rpgshop" similarity, myself, but mainly because it is obscenely easy to find material and different departments on that site...

 

[Magic Rub]

Perhaps if I look into adding a search feature?

This would be nice!

 

[fimp]

I really think EN World needs a refreshing new color scheme. But i think its going in the right direction...

 

[Furn_Darkside]

I really think EN World needs a refreshing new color scheme. But i think its going in the right direction...

I would be happy with a change in the text color.

When reading paragraphs of information, a grey text on a black background begins to be rough on the eyes.

FD

 

[Psion]

First, where is the rpgshop link?

Second, I think I prefer the old "bullet point" style as opposed to the "editorial" style. Gets to the point, lets me pay attention to the points that I am actually interested in instead of wading through a lot of commentary.

 

[Acmite]

I really liked the "centered" news section better than the new version with just the left-hand sidebar.

I find it is more difficult to read the new version--and that's all I really want out of the news page. Easy to read news.

I like the editorial-style news reporting better.

 

[NeghVar]

I really, really, really like that you are linking directly to external sites again. I did not like going to the review section only to find out that there was not a good link to an external site there.

Thanks!!!

 

[Morrus]

I find it is more difficult to read the new version--and that's all I really want out of the news page. Easy to read news.

I like the editorial-style news reporting better.

I'm kinda finding those two statements to be... contradictory.

 

[Nail]

I'm kinda finding those two statements to be... contradictory.

Perhaps my thoughts are similar.

Editorial form = good

length = bad

 

[buzz]

I think that long, unbroken paragraphs are basially a bad idea for most Web pages. Short paragraphs and bullet-points make it easy for users to scan pages and find what it is they're looking for. You're streamlining the navigation, but then adding clutter to the content.

If you want to keep the editorial style, I'd suggest modeling the page after traditional news sites. Have a clearly identifiable headline that is both a hot link and succinctly states the jist of the news item, and then follow it with a paragraph going into more detail, e.g.:

"* _Wizards releases MM2 art gallery_
Blah, blah, orc, blah, blah, pie..."

Organizing these blurbs using the same categories as the old site would be even better.