RacerX new website

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Edited Date/Time 2/4/2014 6:21pm
Sorry, don't like it
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RF219 1/20/2014 4:44pm
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I think its horrible....
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KlootZak 1/20/2014 4:46pm
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You'll get used to it ... Everybody says it when they restyle their website
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308 1/20/2014 4:54pm
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At first glance I didn't like it either but now I do. Good navigation and it's fast!

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dantheman 1/20/2014 4:56pm
1/20/2014 4:56pm
Kinda looks like one of those old free generic(amateur) geocities pages, bleh! Hope it was cheap, cause it sure ain't stylish Dry
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dantheman 1/20/2014 5:02pm
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Funny thing is, that picture, that size could actually work with their new site Tongue
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Crush 1/20/2014 5:12pm
1/20/2014 5:12pm
The dude who designed it was clearly working on a massive screen! It's so damn big and bloated...

The layout is fine, it just needs to be scaled down and tightened up - substantially.
Mykidsmechanic 1/20/2014 5:12pm
1/20/2014 5:12pm Edited Date/Time 1/20/2014 5:13pm
I'm not digging all of it. It is much faster though. I am having trouble seeing the font against the stark white background and the super-long vertical nature is lame. This is what happens when you let 20 year olds make your choices for you. There must be a cute intern with huge tits that made DC all googly eyed and he bobble headed a yes to this new layout without realizing what he had done.
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Crush 1/20/2014 5:21pm
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Mykidsmechanic wrote:
I'm not digging all of it. It is much faster though. I am having trouble seeing the font against the stark white background and the super-long...
I'm not digging all of it. It is much faster though. I am having trouble seeing the font against the stark white background and the super-long vertical nature is lame. This is what happens when you let 20 year olds make your choices for you. There must be a cute intern with huge tits that made DC all googly eyed and he bobble headed a yes to this new layout without realizing what he had done.
I like your avatar
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Brent 1/20/2014 5:27pm
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peelout wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/01/20/42861/s1200_45058730.jpg[/img]
Drama Queens!

Just watch , next it will be someone doing up the old Hitler staff meeting video about how the new site sucks...
Mykidsmechanic 1/20/2014 5:32pm
1/20/2014 5:32pm
Mykidsmechanic wrote:
I'm not digging all of it. It is much faster though. I am having trouble seeing the font against the stark white background and the super-long...
I'm not digging all of it. It is much faster though. I am having trouble seeing the font against the stark white background and the super-long vertical nature is lame. This is what happens when you let 20 year olds make your choices for you. There must be a cute intern with huge tits that made DC all googly eyed and he bobble headed a yes to this new layout without realizing what he had done.
Crush wrote:
I like your avatar
She ain't hard to look at!
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Harry_Gray 1/20/2014 5:52pm
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I'm gonna give it a week or two to grow on me before I pass judgment on it...
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dvs1 1/20/2014 7:17pm
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way to much going on.
Why fix something that is not broken. The only positive is the it adapts to all devices
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Sully22 1/20/2014 7:56pm
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KlootZak wrote:
You'll get used to it ... Everybody says it when they restyle their website
I thought that exact same thing a year or so ago when NASCAR changed their website....I haven't been back. It is awful!
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joemamma 1/20/2014 9:28pm
1/20/2014 9:28pm Edited Date/Time 1/20/2014 9:42pm
A guy posted a CSS fix in the comments of one of the posts. If you use Chrome or Firefox as your browser, you can download stylebot or stylish and use it to make the site look like this.

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aaryn #234 1/20/2014 9:39pm
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joemamma wrote:
A guy posted a [url=http://stylebot.me/styles/4688]CSS fix[/url] in the comments of one of the posts. If you use Chrome or Firefox as your browser, you can download...
A guy posted a CSS fix in the comments of one of the posts. If you use Chrome or Firefox as your browser, you can download stylebot or stylish and use it to make the site look like this.

Think that might be the go.

I was a fan of the old one, it was so easy to log on and see all the latest news, latest updates and features for the day without touching a button and if you missed logging on for a day just scroll down a little and there was yesterday's updates.

Now you log on see one feature four news articles and a video unless you want to go for a scroll. I guess in this social network age people are used to scrolling down the page to see older news, guess it will be the same with web sites. Though personally myself I very rarely scroll down a page very far if at all, must be getting old lol.

A lot of the sites are going this way, guess it is either a matter of getting used to them.

The good thing with the RacerX site though, at least with the new layout if you are a scroller you can keep scrolling down and see everything that has been posted for at least the last two weeks without hafting to up to the menu up the top and start searching.

If I miss Monday Conversation this week, I at least have two weeks to catch and read it Smile

Hopefully it grows on me.

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enketchum 1/20/2014 10:41pm
1/20/2014 10:41pm
I read this thread and it's still loading.....

Blame Weege. He is the online editor

but I love Weege. I'm not blaming him
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Rewindcaz 1/20/2014 10:57pm
1/20/2014 10:57pm Edited Date/Time 1/20/2014 10:58pm
No doubt they struggled with trying to include absolutely as much content and advertisement possible into an extremely responsive layout (the layout adapts to the width of the browser / device, try re-sizing your window to see it change.) Not easy for sure considering the amount of advertisement they're trying to squeeze in (which is a topic of it's own...)

I do like the simplicity of the layout using three category columns for Features / Latest News / Videos. Like Klootzat said, you'll get used to it and like it better before you know it. A lot of thought goes into layout revamps like these and they're for the better -- the old one for example was a turd on iPad and to a lesser extent phones.

I like it. It's a pretty cool design and very responsive. I think it's much, much worse for skimming and finding articles now that it's stretched out and you have to scroll down a zillion times (instead of just flipping through their features/news boxes.) But this layout will make them way more money, I'm sure the old way was not getting enough eyeballs around the rest of the site.
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berno929 1/20/2014 11:16pm
1/20/2014 11:16pm
I really like it on my Android phone with the 3 tabs... Looks clean, simple, fresh...

Full screen on the computer.. there's just too much stuff going on...
Motocross Illustrated 1/20/2014 11:31pm
1/20/2014 11:31pm
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fresh, exciting. As always RacerX lead the way in info on the sport and its FREE. How can people complain about that?
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Motodude 1/20/2014 11:44pm
1/20/2014 11:44pm
New site rips, but wheres the TwoTwo love? Still lacking it seems...
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SoCalMX70 1/20/2014 11:52pm
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I can get used to it. Works for me!
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S.Loyer 1/21/2014 1:14am
1/21/2014 1:14am
I dig it. The monster Hero images in the articles are ridiculous though.
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mmcmx 1/21/2014 2:46am
1/21/2014 2:46am
I like it, Never got used to the old one.
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jamma10 1/21/2014 2:59am
1/21/2014 2:59am
The 'Report' button next to each post in the comment section is long overdue.

I don't envy the person employed to deal with all the alerts though.
Motocross Illustrated 1/21/2014 3:24am
1/21/2014 3:24am
jamma10 wrote:
The 'Report' button next to each post in the comment section is long overdue. I don't envy the person employed to deal with all the alerts...
The 'Report' button next to each post in the comment section is long overdue.

I don't envy the person employed to deal with all the alerts though.
Glad I don't have one of those buttons. I don't think I would get much love.....hahahahaha!!!

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