After much anticipation, our first phase of the new website is up and running. A few little bugs here and there, but I think we gave it a thorough walk through to find anything that might cause problems to our customers. We’ll be monitoring support to answer any questions or issues that might come up.
A HUGE “Thanks” to our “Colombian Crusher“, “NEO” and the man behind the look, “The Eclecticist“. These guys are making it all happen. (Side Note: Dustin wants everyone to know he has nothing to do with the design you see once you login.) 
If you have any of our old pages bookmarked, consider updating the bookmarks because any pages that have changed names or were deleted, will be removed permanently within the next day or two. If you come across anything out of the ordinary, please report it so we can make things right.
Our next phase will be upgrading the part all current customers see daily, the Control Center. This is what most will be happy to see updated, including us!
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I want to publicly acknowledge Juan, Tom, & Dustin too. You guys really did a great job and Dustin….I love the new look. Juan/Tom….thanks for making it all work!
Homepage looks great - but im not seeing a difference in the rest of the site…..
New site - hmmm, it does look more fancy than the old design, but the new one has an IMO huge usability issue - link style. The thing is you cannot tell clickable links and some titles apart - you don’t know if it’s a link or not until you place your mouse cursor over the link.
For example see the LW homepage: the “Recent Blog Posts” is a title which is the same color (although a little larger) as “Website Maintenance Completed - New Site Up” which is a link. But you don’t know it’s a link until you palce your mouse cursor over it, it looks the same as title. Same with the “SIGN UP” links, one would think all other titles the same color and size are links as well…
Or the numbers in “(7,691) advertisers” look exactly the same as the website URL under “Testimonials”. One being a link and the other not. The same thing for example on
http://www.linkworth.com/tools/inventory.php
where “Buy Text Links” link looks the same as the number in “14,976 partner sites” and “65,628,460 actual pages”.
My suggestion is to either make links underlined (without having to mouseover) or some other style to provide a clear picture what is a link and what not. Because right now your links are more confusing than anything else and a company that earns money by selling links should have their own links in order, don’t you think
Anyway, just my 2 cents worth. Glad to see things moving though and can’t wait to see the new account interface!
P.s.: I’d love to see a login form on the LW homepage, but maybe that’s just me.
Ha, funny, the
“Wrote on June 1, 2007 @ 12:54 pm” in the above comment is half link and half not, yet it looks the same. Guess this is a LW tradition ^-^ What’s the first rule about website navigation (links) again?
The new homepage looks so much better. Good color, easy to find links, easier to read font, smart drop-down menus. Well done, guys.
Thanks everyone!
Klemen…yes, I am not a fan of it either. I know they’re not links but find myself putting my mouse on them. But it’s something that will be changed. There’s still a ways to go to get things exactly how we want it, and this great feedback is just what we need!
Joeychgo…I’d say you have to clear you cache maybe? That’s what it sounds like. We’re compiling a list of 301’s, hopefully it will fix that.
Guys, lovin the new design. You had a vision and made it happen. I like your design style Dustin. I do agree with the other comments about confusing links that are not links but that is an easy fix. Great start!
I like it, but I would make the log-in button more prominent. And is the rest of the site also going to be updated?
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