Beta turns better
blog.co.uk to appear in new look and feel on Monday
After a long period of restless coding and developing we´re proud to present blog.co.uk in a new look and feel on Monday afternoon.
What´s new, what does change for you and what makes it "better" ?
1. better software
We´ve made a fundamental change to our software architecture. This change will allow us to move forward faster in the future and react faster to your suggestions and comments. It was painful not being able to implement your ideas and actually postponing some of them and instead re-structure the whole software framework instead. But we´re convinced it was the right way to go and are looking forward to implementing some nice improvements in the near future.
2. better colors
We´ve received many complaints regarding the little contrast of text and other elements on blog.co.uk. Therefore, we got rid of the color scheme and introduced a new one. We hope you like it.
3. better content
There´s a lot of good content around on blog.co.uk. But most of us will miss a lot of this content if we do not happen to stumble upon it by chance. Since we believe these treasures should see some more daylight, we´re about to create a "Topics" section where we intend to highlight the most popular topics and show the best content across all media forms on those pages. This, we believe, will make the whole site more worthwhile to hang around on and will give more bloggers more exposure and traffic.
We have launched a pilot of the topic sites on the blog.co.uk sister site www.blog.de. You may want to have a look and jump into the fourth main tab called "Themen" (Topics) in the top navigation. You´ll find 3 topics there for now: "love", "life" and "politics" which are very popular topics on the German site.
Aside from this, we´ve improved community features such as member search, improved the profile pages, and expanded the media section. More serious feature improvement will take place in the near future.
We believe that we have a made a big promising step forward in order to make blog.co.uk in every way better for you and are looking forward to making it even much better in the future. We hope you will survive the adaption phase and await your comments. Thank you for all suggestions, patience and participation. Enjoy !