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A new look norg

It’s been a busy couple of months working on the new look and design for the norg. And while the new site looks great, we spent a lot of time improving the user-interface and news experience for our users.

We’ve tried to simplify everything from sign up, to voting and editing your stories - so let us know what we have got right and what we still need to work on.

When you file a story now your votes are recorded automatically, and when you vote you should notice the votes increase straight away.

A big thanks to Myles Eftos for all his work.

Hope to see you round the Norg.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 2:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “A new look norg”

  1. grum Says:
    September 19th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    Good work guys!

    a lot easier on the eyes than the older site.

    ps, redirect norg.com.au to something prettier ;)

  2. Myles Eftos Says:
    September 19th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Your wish is my command Mr Grum :P

  3. Devar Says:
    September 20th, 2007 at 1:41 am

    Hmmmmm me likey, but I still have a few design nitpicks :P
    Why the huge NORG! in the logo, the city name seems to take second place, like “perth !!!NORG!!!” instead of Perth Norg .. if you get my meaning.

    The right column on the front page is empty space. If the norg has a three column layout, why is one of them taking up so much room! This is fine on article pages, again just the frontpage still needs a bit of a a shuffle.

    What do you think? Am I wrong?

  4. Devar Says:
    September 20th, 2007 at 1:42 am

    Oh, and why is there STILL no “politics” subsection? ;)

  5. Devar Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    I have some more quirks I’d love to see something done around the norg :-)
    1) An increase in the length of allowed characters in the title. I never seem to be able to fit only 80 in. Why the limit?

    2) Techology should become Science & Technology, or SciTech, or something similar. Also including any medicinal articles (it’s a science!)

    3) An introduction of a Politics subsection. This will become a requirement since the elections are coming up, that and I post a lot of politik-related articles that really would be better in “politics” rather than the “news” section!

  6. Bronwen Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    Hey Devar,
    thanks for all your thoughts. I’m writing out a few tickets for Myles … oh, and I’ll blame you for his workload :)

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