F1 Fanatic home page redesign
24th December 2009, 10:39 by Keith Collantine 73 Comments »
As promised, here’s an early look at the next version of the F1 Fanatic home page.
The two most important aims for the new version of the home page are:
- To make it lighter and, therefore, load more quickly
- To make it easier to see the latest stories
Please let me know what you think of the design in the comments below and I’ll take your thoughts on board for when we turn the design into finished code.
Inevitably these changes will force alterations on some other pages, such as articles, and I’ll keep you up-to-date on what we’re planning to do there.
I have noticed replies from some people in the moment asking about the mobile version of F1 Fanatic. You should see a mobile-friendly version of the site if you browse it with a suitable device. If it doesn’t seem to work for you please leave a note in the comments, preferably letting me know what kind of device you’re trying to view it on.
For more information on the changes being made to the site see here: Update on improvements to F1 Fanatic
F1 Fanatic home page redesign (click to enlarge)
wasiF1 said on 24th December 2009, 10:43
Keith your work for F1F is magnificent,I don’t mind whatever the design be,just I hope it loads more quickly in my pc.
Again THANKS FOR YOUR BLOG.
Keith Collantine said on 24th December 2009, 14:33
Yeah me too! And fix these damn error messages…
Sush Meerkat said on 24th December 2009, 14:59
The wait is worth it.
Keith, can I make a suggestion to the new site in future?, locking down the comments on your article to one post a day, with a link to the forum for unrestricted discussion.
Therefore discussion would still be there but the comments attached to the article would be better thought out, and the forum link to the article would have all the superfluous stuff like MP4 shouting at anything resembling the colour red.
Oh and my rubbish comments would be in the forum too, so thats a plus!.
DC said on 29th December 2009, 11:53
Some of us are active commenters in the blog but not the forum, though. I’m not even registered there.
Dave said on 15th February 2010, 11:24
Didnt even know there was forum, never mind being registered on it
Siwongo said on 24th December 2009, 10:46
Looks great, nice work. Do you think the website could be centred on the new version, or at least have an option? It’s the only thing that bothers me about the website haha, other than that, looks good and looking forward to it being released.
Keith Collantine said on 24th December 2009, 12:21
Yep the new version will be centred.
AP said on 24th December 2009, 10:51
only thing that would be great …to be able to edit posts…nothing worse than having to repost another msg because the typing is to slow to keep up with the brain.
Great stuff Keith
Also if your going onto this full on then maybe look at adding other motorsport info and results (no bikes please). I know you have in the past but bit more regular and I wont need to visit other sites then.
Macca said on 24th December 2009, 13:33
Becuase there are people on this website from all over the world, maybe you could have a section were a person from there own country writes an articles on the main motorsport compition in that country. (ie. Australia – V8 Supercars, USA – NASCARS, Germany – DTM, Britin – BTCC)
These articles could be updated weekly or monthley and you could hold auditions to see who could get to right for there countries compition. Of course, you wouldn’t have every country represented, just the countries with major motorsport chmpionships.
Jay Menon said on 28th December 2009, 9:29
Yeah I like this idea…good stuff
SamS said on 24th December 2009, 10:51
looks amazing!!!! role on the implementation of it!
sato113 said on 24th December 2009, 11:01
looks great!
DanThorn said on 24th December 2009, 11:02
Looking great Keith! Do you think there’s space for a section linking to recent forum posts? Or is that section undergoing a redesign as well?
Chris Y said on 24th December 2009, 11:06
And the best part is… there’s a new picture of Keith!
I like the new design’s layout more, but it sort of reminds me of a commercial news site (which, come to think of it, F1F may actually be). I’ll miss this design, which to me looks more ‘personal’ in a way!
But convenience and layout outweigh these anyway. Looking forward to more great F1 news and opinions!
ccolanto said on 24th December 2009, 18:15
YEAH I NOTICED THAT TOO!
HAHAH
way to go keith! nice redesign work all round!
Kovy said on 24th December 2009, 11:08
I normally say “don’t fix what isn’t broken” but the new design is at least as good. I like it
Prisoner Monkeys said on 24th December 2009, 11:20
Oooooh, pretty …
Dave said on 24th December 2009, 11:32
I never use the main page, sorry. I use the RSS feed and go directly to the story itself
PJA said on 24th December 2009, 11:36
Looks good, my only question is has the section for the latest forum posts been dropped or have I just missed it?
Andrey said on 24th December 2009, 11:42
Looks good. But i think that current dark footer is better.
Chalky said on 24th December 2009, 11:46
Looks good.
I’d like a better forum, although I think you mentioned that this is something that is going to be looked at.
Younger Hamilton said on 24th December 2009, 11:48
looka good but i think the Back ground should change a bit
lukeaa said on 24th December 2009, 11:59
looks very clean and professional, nice one