New Design for CenterNetworks

centernetworksI am very excited to announce that CenterNetworks has a new look and a completely overhauled backend setup. We've been testing the new setup over the past week and so far it's been solid. The goal was to simplify the frontend and create better content paths. With so much of our traffic going directly to an interior page, we worked hard to make sure that users would be able to see a top-line of what's new across the site.

The left menu now features content categories and companies of interest. This list will rotate as topics and companies move up and down the hot list. Our awesome sponsors are now highlighted and NYC now has it's own section. We provide more NYC Web coverage than any other site and we wanted to highlight the growing NYC Web scene. We've also added a list of contributors to the site. Some of our best posts come from our contributors and I felt this was very important to showcase. There's a lot more, poke around and find all the goodies.

The new design was created by Mark Langeneck of CMPLT design. Mark is one of the most talented designers I know. He understands more about usability, architecture and the general Web than most of the other 200+ designers I've worked with in my career. His questioning of design strategy also strengthens the final product. Perhaps it comes from his love of Elvis. Whatever it is, he did an awesome job.

In case you are wondering about the backend of CenterNetworks, we use Drupal and mySQL. I spent many hours optimizing the heck out of the code to make sure the site loads as quickly as possible. In my testing, the new CN loads 5x quicker than the old CN.

This is just the start; we've got more exciting things in the hopper. Thanks as always for reading and engaging with CenterNetworks and thanks to all of our great sponsors (current and past) who help us continue our operations. If you are on the feed, this is a great time to stop by the full site. And please let me know if you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvement.

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Submitted by Maggie on August 17, 2008 - 5:12pm.

can you PLEASE go kick arrington's ass now?

Submitted by centernetworks on August 17, 2008 - 9:42pm.

no comment

Submitted by Anonymous on August 17, 2008 - 5:38pm.

very well done - clean and loads fast - what i like in a web page

Submitted by centernetworks on August 17, 2008 - 9:42pm.

yea i agree! thank you

Submitted by booyah on August 17, 2008 - 5:45pm.

as cramer says, BOOYAH!

Submitted by centernetworks on August 17, 2008 - 9:42pm.

bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbooyah!

buy buy buy

Submitted by Mark on August 17, 2008 - 5:52pm.

Hands down the best design when compared to Mashable or Techcrunch. Love the new clean look, it flows so much better.

Submitted by centernetworks on August 17, 2008 - 9:41pm.

Wow - thanks - that's something!

Submitted by Paul Glazowski on August 17, 2008 - 6:15pm.

Very nice, very nice. How much? (Channeling Borat. Sorry, joke's way too old, huh.)

Submitted by centernetworks on August 17, 2008 - 9:41pm.

How much what? It's 1000 px wide.

Submitted by Ryan on August 17, 2008 - 7:59pm.

Meant to say how nice it looks a week or so ago... congrats

Submitted by centernetworks on August 17, 2008 - 9:39pm.

Thanks Ryan!

Submitted by Tim Marman * on August 17, 2008 - 11:04pm.

Slick. I like it.

Submitted by centernetworks on August 18, 2008 - 6:43am.

thanks for your support tim!

Submitted by Fraser K on August 17, 2008 - 11:16pm.

congrats allen and the entire CN team (including the new hire who must be double the age from when we originally were introduced :D). the site looks great, loads quick, and feels crips.

Submitted by centernetworks on August 18, 2008 - 6:44am.

thanks for all of your advice Fraser!

Submitted by Tamar Weinberg on August 18, 2008 - 12:24am.

Sweet -- loving it.

Submitted by centernetworks on August 18, 2008 - 6:40am.

Thanks Tamar!

Submitted by Robert Scoble on August 18, 2008 - 12:38am.
Submitted by centernetworks on August 18, 2008 - 6:42am.

Thanks for stopping by Mr. Scoble!

Submitted by Imran Hussain on August 18, 2008 - 2:16am.

Yay! nice design! btw I'm surprised no one named this design Center Networks 2.0. lol!

Submitted by centernetworks on August 18, 2008 - 6:41am.

haha i was going to write that this was a beta but decided against it - i tihnk this would actually be cn 3.0 :-P

Submitted by KimH on August 18, 2008 - 3:31am.

Nice looking and fast- congrats!

Submitted by centernetworks on August 18, 2008 - 6:41am.

Thanks for all your help in troubleshooting Kim!

Submitted by J Logan on August 18, 2008 - 4:13am.

hey hooray, fantastic stuff! you are defenitely in the lead with this site

Submitted by centernetworks on August 18, 2008 - 6:42am.

looks yes, now traffic :)

Submitted by manuscrypts on August 18, 2008 - 10:52am.

cuil.. sorry, cool ;)

Submitted by Craig on August 19, 2008 - 11:54pm.

Nice Job Alan, I know how hard it is to where as many hats as you do, blogger, producer, developer, designer. Keep up the good fight.

Submitted by Craig on August 20, 2008 - 12:00am.

Sorry Allan about getting your name wrong

Submitted by Craig on August 20, 2008 - 12:00am.

Sorry Allen about getting your name wrong

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