Simple Navigation Changes to GameSpot!

May 4, 2011 12:57PM PDT

By Jody Robinson, Community Manager

GameSpot's navigation and design changes to grant better navigation.

A couple of weeks ago many of you had a chance to participate in a beta test of our navigation menu. We also had a little secret happening behind the scenes--a new design! We hope the new design on GameSpot.com's home page, platform pages, and other pages helps you navigate the website with ease. Gone are the old website days where you have so many options you have no idea where to start! You can now find everything based on its category on the front page, and the mouse-over navigation dropdowns should be quite handy. Drop by this article to view the changes.

We would like to point out a couple of known issues we already have on our road map to have changed: the private message alerts currently go off when you have updates, and the list of games you're following shows only up to 20. These two areas will change for the better.

We understand that not every change makes everyone happy, no matter how much we love change. Therefore, if you find that something isn't working out for you, we're open to your suggestions or any other feedback you have about the changes. Feel free to share what you'd like to see via the Feedback buttons located on the site and platform home pages. There, you can make a suggestion, and other GameSpot members can suggest that your idea rocks, which will likely grab our attention much sooner! Staff members also have been responding to you about whether or not your ideas might work, so be sure to let us know what you think!

By Jody Robinson, Community Manager

Jody Robinson's vocabulary consists mainly of first person shooters because of her Quake roots. She's also rather fond of RTS and MMO games.

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18 comments

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badkarma77

Download sections sucks. Can't view most recently added demos. It only shows the top 5 or so most downloaded.

geomancer5

Sota speak The layout is quit the luxurey. The meaning of formality is persistent in blogging. Anyway enjoy I will.

Cloud_765

Like the new look, still think unions need their layout updated.

Sandulf29

I like the new look :D but i wish if you could resolve old problems like emblems glitches and all

monkeyd_93

would love to see profile pages to get a makeover and more customiseable to show what we want other people to see and where

sonictrainer

If there was a drop tab for unions I'ved joined, similar to the games I've tracking drop time, that would save me some time when I want to post new updates at my unions. :idea:

riou7 moderator moderator

Yeah i think changing the unions layout would be cool too :D

gamer-clemm

Not that GameSpot's home page format is awesome. Why not make union formats awesome?

deershadow ranger

Looks very nice. Hopefully unions will be a part of the new updates. :)

XenoLair

Id definitely prefer unions being updated but oh well..

Artekus

I like the new look. Now hopefully unions will get some attention.

OmegaAxl

Why don't you have a contest for members to make a layout for GS and award an emblem to the winner? Sounds fun and interesting.

thom_maytees

I like the new design, but do not like the drop down menus. I also do not like the fact that I have use the drop down menu to see if I receive any new update or private messages.

pleasurengineer

Hmm, I applaud trying to improve things. Perhaps I'll get used to it, but I really liked the headlines appearing on the top right before the change. Now we see review scores which are a very static thing to put on such a highly viewed piece of real estate. My goto site for Top 5 news stories shown concisely is Gamespot... now I need to scroll to see the news items. Never really enjoyed IGN's website though I respect the content. Now Gamespot looks more like IGN and Games Radar. But I do respect the content on Gamespot as well. Don't want to be negative. Sorry.

Azaru32

Fix unions and I will make a statue of Jody at my porch!!!

UltraZero

That is a glitch. Unions aren't meant to have a new look.

telvisnostic

I like the layout. I just don't like that the Union forums look like everything else.

UltraZero

"These two areas will change for the better. ' There goes the only complaint I had.

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