LaLa FuFu! talkin’ shiii… talkin’ shiii…

^^Click the above image to see the whole design^^

My boy @mager (who is a C|net employee) tweeted yesterday about the the Digg.com page for the new C|net.com redesign. C|net I’m sorry, you lost me on this one. I’ve stayed with you guys through all of your site iterations but the new layout looks like a a premium Wordpress theme that I could by for about $39 dollars US. The designer of the new look @dbfarber had this to say about the criticism,

From some of the commenters it appears the paint job framing the content is more important than the content. Yellow, red, green, blue, black whatever. We came up the cleaner look and updated logo for presenting content. Beauty is only skin deep….”

DBFarber I disagree, see I’ve been a C|net fan since the first show “CNET Central” aired in 1994 on the Sci Fi Channel. back then the internet didn’t exist for me. C|net eventually helped me make a decision to go to New York to pursue a career on the internet in 1997. I’m not the only person that hates this redesign. You’re basically stripping away the identity of one of the most recognized nerd destinations on the web. C|net keep your identity and I’ll keep coming back. Throw it away and I’ll probably not care as much about you. You have been warned C|net.

-holla