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December 14, 2007

Newly Redesigned CrunchGear Launched

Mark Hendrickson

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Today, we deployed a new website design for CrunchGear, our hardware and gadget blog. Whether you’re a regular CG reader or not, we hope you’ll be impressed with its new look and functionality.

We’ve changed a bunch of things around while trying to preserve its old feeling and identity. There’s now a featured posts box in the upper right, a SezWho reputation system for threaded comments, and headlines from all our blogs at the bottom of the page.

There are a lot of other little things changed, and we’re still making tweaks and fixing bugs. Please check it out and let us know what you think. Your feedback is especially important because we plan to roll out a very similar design for all our other blogs (including this one) in the beginning of 2008.

Special thanks goes out to ACS for designing the new site, Alex King of Crowd Favorite for implementing a lot of WordPress functionality, and Mediatemple for remaining our trusty hosting provider.

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  1. Zaid

    December 14th, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    That gray hurts my eye!

    Dull gray + dull orange = bad idea, also.

  2. Deals and Coupons

    December 14th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    I miss the old layout.

  3. poopie

    December 14th, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    Ah CrunchGear…

    …Just a lame version of Engadget.

    TechCrunch, stop trying to get us to read CrunchGear and go back to reporting useless Facebook features. Thank You.

  4. Angela Hayden

    December 14th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    Another pretty face. But, so much depth!

    sincerely,

    angela hayden
    art goddess

  5. Live Crunch

    December 14th, 2007 at 7:56 pm

    Love it , who was the designer? You could of email me to do the design for u :)

  6. Faramarz

    December 14th, 2007 at 8:05 pm

    the comment section makes my eyes scream bloody murder! I love the simplicity of this TC comment format.

  7. Alex

    December 14th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    What’s Crunchgear?

  8. nick

    December 14th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    a little more lively color may help a little bit, but i really like the overall concept. kudos on the update. im looking forward to the TC update

  9. Steve Ballmer

    December 14th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    It was better before!

  10. CAR

    December 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Damn, looks really nice.

  11. Jesse

    December 14th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    I just jumped over to CG for the first time to some article explaining that we should all be using G3 powerbooks. Are you serious?! CG isn’t going to attract TC’s readership with shit like that.

  12. Planet Malaysia

    December 14th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    Yeah! I don’t like grey colot too.

  13. Luke

    December 15th, 2007 at 5:05 am

    Man, the old layout was so much better. Crisper, cleaner and prettier. This one looks very dated. The header is fugly. I seriously wonder how much this redesign cost!

  14. BUTT UGLY

    December 15th, 2007 at 6:43 am

    EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I don’t know how many people here like crunchgear. Why is Crunchgear always stick it head out of elephant’s butt?

  15. Mtz

    December 15th, 2007 at 6:48 am

    Looks really good, although I had nothing against the dead-simple layout of the previous version. When’s the new design of Techcrunch coming btw? I’m sick of this design.

  16. Page Load is slower than people's geocities

    December 15th, 2007 at 6:56 am

    Believe me this site and crunch gear looks like Kiddie website like Geocities or open fan page. No offensive. If you have high speed connection Page load takes too long to load. Have you test it?

  17. gregory

    December 15th, 2007 at 8:00 am

    it seems over-designed, busy, visually distracting

    what i like about the current techcrunch design is it is very simple, no distractions, a straight read…

    the new design at crunchgear seems like it is trying to get something from me, and not allowing me to simply be present with what is being talked about…

    attempting to do more, it has become less, and is maybe a bit cliche’d, a lot like other sites

  18. Buddy

    December 15th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    I don’t really fancy the design either.

    The earlier one wasn’t amazing but it did the job. There is just too much grey in this one and it makes the site look really drab and boring.

  19. Sara b

    December 15th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    @ poopie: Do you actually read CrunchGear? It’s not an engadget clone, not at all. Engadget is nothing but hardware guys circle jerking with other hardware guys. CrunchGear, from what i’ve seen, is really more about how the hardware affects us personally. I do’nt want the technical specs on the new Motorola phone, I want to know what they do for me, and that’s why CrunchGear is my gadget blog. Pull your head out of your ass and give it a try before bashing it, man.

  20. panama for business

    December 15th, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    looking pretty slick

  21. freg

    December 15th, 2007 at 11:26 pm

    partys over. what do you people do in 2008?

  22. Jon

    December 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    Design is nice, but why doesn’t CrunchGear use the SAME design except for colors for differentiation across all it’s site for consistency?

    Jon

  23. Amazed

    December 16th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    WTF’s the matter with (most) of you people… I thought it was only blogs like Engadget that required you to be a former comic book store owner before posting. Bunch of know-it-all critics with very little in constructive comments. A-holes.

  24. Jay Adair

    December 17th, 2007 at 6:36 am

    Love the design, but I think the comments are overkill. I prefer the linear approach we have currently. I hope those changes don’t make it over here.

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