I dislike the new design.
It loads inceradily slowly.
Its white, which kills my eyes. I far preferred the darker background which limited my eyetrain.
The splitting on the site into 3 sites just doesn't make any sense. It means that information is in 3 different locations that are slow to navigate between. This is heignened by the fact that the paces load really slowly.
Several formatting issues with the forums, such as bullet points that don't actaully fit in the box that the post goes in and broken quotes.
Furthermore I'm critical of the way posts are seperated so much between the different posters, it wastes space and just means I need to use the mouse wheel more then I should. I'd prefer it to be similar to how it was.
The front page of the sales tracking website is just amaturish in its design.
No hot topics?
The forums are more difficult to browse as its in a list thats vertical as opposed to horizontal. Which means again I need to use my mouse wheel etc.
No IM, though I didn't use it much and I can understand why it was probably removed.
Overall, I find the site more complex in its navigation, induces more eyestrain, looks less professional on the tracking page and is really sluggish when loading.
So my suggestions are the following.
1: Have an option for a darker background with a lighter font so that my eyes don't die when I read this site.
2: Optimize the site so it isn't so sluggish when loading new pages?
3: horizontal forum navigation (eg have the links to the different sections of the forums in a horizontal format to increase the speed of browsing the forums).
4: Bring back hot topics? That was truly useful.
5: Bring back the old ways posts were displayed. This individual seperated boxes waste too much space.
6: Re-design the tracking website homepage, its looks less professional then it did before. It uses far too many shages of grey.
