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Offline WeatherWitness

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New weather.com design: April 2012
« on: April 28, 2012, 07:25:04 PM »
Well guys, weather.com has changed again.   It amazes me how they now feel they have to change the design every year. :rolleyes:

But this is a HUGE change!!! :o  Everything looks different now...even the local weather pages!  I don't like it; everything looks too cluttered.  What do you guys think?
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2012, 07:36:57 PM »
While the background does look nice, there's just too much stuff on one page. They should have put news headlines in a news section and not clutter the local weather page imo...
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2012, 07:49:41 PM »
I have no idea what change is being discussed here. I didn't see anything different when I went on a there a few minutes ago. :no:
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2012, 07:58:04 PM »
Quote from: Weatherlover on April 28, 2012, 07:49:41 PM
I have no idea what change is being discussed here. I didn't see anything different when I went on a there a few minutes ago. :no:
Yeah, I'm not either :no:
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2012, 08:06:47 PM »
No change on my end either. Do you have a screenshot, Andy?
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2012, 08:17:45 PM »
Here's screenshots I took. I don't use weather.com ever so idk if its new or not. 1st one is from the very top second one is from the very bottom.
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2012, 08:19:44 PM »
Travis, that's not the new design. ;)

I don't know why I'm always the first to see these new designs.  Trust me, I'm not joking.  I am going to provide several screenshots in just a few minutes.  It looks like this must still be in beta test mode, and for me, it is also only showing on IE. :blink:

EDIT: Alright, I've provided the screenshots.  The first two show the top and bottom half of the homepage.  The next two show the top and bottom half of the local page.  The third shows only the top half of the 10-Day on the local page.  There are certainly a great deal of changes, and it's difficult to show you everything from a screenshot point-of-view.  But hopefully you get the idea what may be rolling in the next few days or so.

ANOTHER EDIT: As you can see, this is certaily a very Facebook/Twitter-friendly site now.  Also, the "Make it Your Weather" you see on the last screenshot in place of the weather.com logo means that you can essentially change the logo to say something like "Andy's weather."
« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 08:35:36 PM by WeatherWitness »
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2012, 08:41:50 PM »
I'm still not seeing this, even after my cache is cleared :wacko:
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2012, 08:48:26 PM »
Try typing in "preview.weather.com" (obviously without the quotes :) )
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2012, 08:49:31 PM »
It's ok, it would take some getting used to.  :itsok:

I find it ironic that the new website design is being advertised in an article on one of the the screenshots, but yet I don't see that article and I still don't see this site redesign in either Chrome or IE9!  :P

EDIT: Now I see it thanks to that preview trick from Matt.
« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 08:51:29 PM by Weatherlover »
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2012, 08:53:09 PM »
Yeah, a bit cluttered for my tastes. Not like it matters for me; NWS is the only site I've been going to for weather information since about a year ago.
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2012, 02:43:37 PM »
Even with the preview URL, I don't see much difference. The only noticeable change is the local weather page. Not a fan. I liked the tabs at the top much better. Now I have to scroll down to get the 5 and 10 day forecasts. Things also seem to be randomly placed. Kind of hard to find what you're looking for. And what's the Facebook thing (love/ugh) about? The last thing I need in my feed is a bunch of useless posts about the weather. :rolleyes:
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2012, 04:17:15 PM »
A video was made about it, I don't suppose it's aired?

http://preview.weather.com/services/tutorial-redesign/overview.html

anyway, it's kinda nice I like it, especially the changing background that corresponds to the weather.
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2012, 08:34:43 PM »
Though I don't have it yet, I have no quarrels with what I see or what the video mentions. Chalk this one up to "evolutionary" website changes, and not "revolutionary" new design.
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Re: New weather.com design: April 2012
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2012, 06:47:11 PM »
Looks like the new weather.com is launching on May 2, the same day as the 30th Anniversary of TWC.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/weather-channels-30th-anniversary-plans_b125045#more-125045,
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