i think thats a good sign that a Finder with tabs wouldnt be as great as you think it would.
tabs work fine for things like browser windows, where they dont interact with each other.
how the hell do you drag and drop a file from tab one to tab two?
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What do you think of the Apple website's new tab design?
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i think thats a good sign that a Finder with tabs wouldnt be as great as you think it would.
tabs work fine for things like browser windows, where they dont interact with each other.
how the hell do you drag and drop a file from tab one to tab two?
As a whole I really like the design, nice clean and simplistic, the search tool is great, gives visitors an intro to Mac OS X. The tabs are straight to the point and identifies what apple does, computers, ipod, iphone. The feature I like on the site is the image galleries on the leopard new features where the image seems to expand and float above the screen. I would love to incorporate something like that on my site as my slideshows are a bit basic, anyone know where I can find a script to buy for that?
No, Apple.com has actually lost tabs.
Those aren't tabs in my eyes, their just navigation buttons.
yeh the old design is a few years old now... new design looks good.
Nice and simple...
I love the product scroller for Mac Mini/iMac/ etc etc...
it's on this page http://www.apple.com/mac/
Nice and simple...
I love the product scroller for Mac Mini/iMac/ etc etc...
it's on this page http://www.apple.com/mac/
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I like the new look... not quite 100% sold on the LARGE part of the site, while I agree dropping 800x600 design on a website as anyone you want to target should have left that resolution ages ago... this new version just seems too big. Maybe somewhere in the middle... but, all in all, it looks very nice!
And, I just tried the search, didn't realize it worked like spotlight. I have to say they incorporate a lot of kick @$$ scripts on there site, from the Top Download iPhone'esque sliders, to the Mac@work shingles, to the cover flow Mac selections to the spotlight search, to the half popup QT viewers for the Leopard features....
Dang, that list gets long. It's one heckuva well put together technical site. Lots of code, lots of new things, lots of variations of current things... Apple did what they do best. Microsoft's Website is... well... not like this. At all.
Innovation. Gotta love it!
And, I just tried the search, didn't realize it worked like spotlight. I have to say they incorporate a lot of kick @$$ scripts on there site, from the Top Download iPhone'esque sliders, to the Mac@work shingles, to the cover flow Mac selections to the spotlight search, to the half popup QT viewers for the Leopard features....
Dang, that list gets long. It's one heckuva well put together technical site. Lots of code, lots of new things, lots of variations of current things... Apple did what they do best. Microsoft's Website is... well... not like this. At all.
Innovation. Gotta love it!
Thing is this will go for another 3-5 years, by then it will probably start to look small and resolutions of screens keep increasing.
1024px will look like 800px does now, too small.
This is why I'm moving towards the idea of elastic design and ems for everything.
I think the new top navigation bar looks good on dark backgrounds, but on white background pages it looks a little out of place and not well integrated with the rest of the page -- sort of floating there by itself.
I think it looks ok -- but given Apple's reputation for sophisticated design and aesthetic perfection, I find it mildly bland and crude -- just not very sexy and refined. But still a leap forward from the previous one!
I think it looks ok -- but given Apple's reputation for sophisticated design and aesthetic perfection, I find it mildly bland and crude -- just not very sexy and refined. But still a leap forward from the previous one!
I like the look though I wish they didn't make it quite as wide. Also something things are a bit harder to find (Ill get used to it) Though definitely a lot better.
Yes, more of that. People seemed to be getting early on that the Web wasn't paper (it really, really helped that text mode browsers were fairly common at the beginning), but that seems to have been forgotten.
It's possible that they're rolling out a custom layout to deal with it, but how stupid are the these Apple pages going to look on their new phone?
It seems a bit odd that "hardware" and "software" don't have separate tabs, but that "downloads" has its own tabs.
Seems like it would make more sense to have a "hardware" and a "software' tab and then make "downloads" part of the "software" area.
Seems like it would make more sense to have a "hardware" and a "software' tab and then make "downloads" part of the "software" area.
Here's a side-by-side comparison of the two designs:
Old:
New:
The new site seems too dark for my liking, I know apple has been slowly shifting to new new colour scheme but the black is a little morbid, too professional and hard on the eyes.
As for the new tabs the new ones mimic an OS X desktop with an apple logo and spotlight search bar but they leave behind the 'secondary' row of detail which has been added in slightly (very) cluttered main pages where it is hard to find.
The choice of tab headings shows that .mac is dead, quicktime is no longer as famous as it has been in the past and that Mac OS X is no longer one of apple's main focus points, probably due to the fact that it's become bigger than intended, not that apple would ever get rid of OS X but maybe since its on the main page there is no need for a tab at teh moment.
The new site seems to cater for higher standard resolutions as all the content has been spread wider across the page due to screen resolutions of computers increasing. I would still liek to see the page adjust to a greater width. Even though it seems fine on my 20" iMac I can't imagine how it must feel on a 30" screen.
All in all a decent improvement graphically, technically and practically I'm still unsure.
Old:
New:
The new site seems too dark for my liking, I know apple has been slowly shifting to new new colour scheme but the black is a little morbid, too professional and hard on the eyes.
As for the new tabs the new ones mimic an OS X desktop with an apple logo and spotlight search bar but they leave behind the 'secondary' row of detail which has been added in slightly (very) cluttered main pages where it is hard to find.
The choice of tab headings shows that .mac is dead, quicktime is no longer as famous as it has been in the past and that Mac OS X is no longer one of apple's main focus points, probably due to the fact that it's become bigger than intended, not that apple would ever get rid of OS X but maybe since its on the main page there is no need for a tab at teh moment.
The new site seems to cater for higher standard resolutions as all the content has been spread wider across the page due to screen resolutions of computers increasing. I would still liek to see the page adjust to a greater width. Even though it seems fine on my 20" iMac I can't imagine how it must feel on a 30" screen.
All in all a decent improvement graphically, technically and practically I'm still unsure.
Not a bad design, but not new either. It's the same look'n'feel of some of their existing "pro" product pages. For that nostalgic feel, you can still browse the Canadian site in it's dated aqua glory.
What are people browsing on that it seems too wide? You'd have to have a 800x600 monitor not to be able to fit the page on your screen. It's about time the new baseline became 1024. I've officially phased 800x600 out of my design considerations. Sorry iMac G3s. 