Yahoo's New Look
Tue, 23 May, 2006 – 9:36 am
Yahoo has set live its new homepage design. I saw this a few days ago before it was running live. My own thoughts? It's still too busy for my liking. Comparing it with the old page it looks cleaner and neater but I think Google's idea of the personalised desktop is much better as you can control what you see, and you start from a blank canvas.
I prefer Yahoo to search with. I find it gives better more accurate and trusted results. To be honest I rarely see the homepage as I use the Yahoo search built into Firefox.
As for the coding. Well first of all, any 800*600 screen res users will find a nice horizontal scroll there, as it's designed for a 1024 wide screen. Whilst Yahoo have tried to use modern markup (unlike Google who's still using tables for layout), they've managed to create 116 warnings/errors with their code. Looking through their code all of it contains the full javascript (external files are far better), there's javascript everywhere! I wonder how well it fares without JS turned on. Then there are spans around headers or divs and a few more errors, possibly caused by previous errors being present. It makes me wonder if the web developers for Yahoo write hand code and actually try to validate their code!
At least after a search you still have the familiar page of results with the Yahoo search at the top, along with Yahoo's great suggestion tool of other phrases to search on.
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