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New weather.com look
« on: September 26, 2013, 03:35:54 PM »
In case you weren't aware, weather.com just got a major facelift. Don't worry! Your stories about spooky train stations and the 8 things you didn't know about sloths are still front and center, with those boring maps and forecasts near the bottom.

It's on the beta testing sub-domain, so in case you aren't automatically sent to it, try this link. The new look is a little too slick and boxy for my tastes, but better than the previous design.
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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2013, 07:35:06 PM »
It's been years since I've been to that site. ;)

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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2013, 08:27:39 AM »
The New weather.com has launched. Features the simple icons

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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2013, 11:59:34 AM »
It truly looks as if weather.com is trying to emulate Windows 8.  In my opinion, it's an unholy and disorganized mess in which nothing looks good.

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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2013, 12:51:28 PM »
I really like the new design of weather.com. It's very clean and organized. Before they relaunched weather.com I kept going to beta.weather.com just to see the redesign. Once again good work TWC!!!! :clap:  :worship:
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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2013, 03:20:19 PM »
It truly looks as if weather.com is trying to emulate Windows 8.  In my opinion, it's an unholy and disorganized mess in which nothing looks good.
Agreed. Very boxy and bland. :yawn:
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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2013, 05:46:26 PM »
so i have to go through more menus to access stuff now..  :itsok:
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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2013, 10:20:26 PM »
Is TWC just trying to make their stuff less user-friendly?  I don't understand.  It just seems like a bunch of stuff randomly placed.  I don't get it, and I suppose I never will. :no:

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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2013, 12:56:47 AM »
The New weather.com has launched. Features the simple icons

Bordentown, ha. I got lost there on the way from Delaware back in 2007, and ended up going to a Dunkin Donuts on Route 206 for directions back to AC.

I don't think the look is bad. I'm glad they are making is simpler, the design looks a lot more cleaner, IMO.

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Re: New weather.com look
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2013, 08:53:57 AM »
The new icons remind me a little of the WeatherSTAR-era icons in a way.  I haven't noticed any changes in the way I access the weather data I like to look up on this site, so at least they didn't mess it up too badly IMHO.

EDIT: Never mind.  I just realized they merged the "Mostly Sunny/Fair" icon with the "Partly Cloudy" icon and the "Isolated/Scattered Thunderstorm" icon with the "Thunderstorm" icon.  So, the level of detail provided on the monthly weather data is compromised.  This is unacceptable to me.  :thumbdown:
« Last Edit: October 08, 2013, 06:08:23 PM by Metarvo »