Apple picker Already on Sunday, Jablíčkář changed into a new design. Today, however, we would like to officially welcome you to the "New Generation Apple Growers", because we have been fine-tuning some details in the last few days and also carefully followed your opinions and comments.
We don't present a new look to our magazine as often as, for example, Apple changes the design of its products, but after a few years we decided it was time to move on again.
Nový Jablíčkář is therefore a modern magazine that comes, for example, with a completely responsive and uniform design across desktops and mobile devices. On any device, MacBook, iMac, iPhone or iPad, the Apple Reader adapts to the dimensions of your display and is displayed in such a way that it is as pleasant to read as possible.
At the same time, we tried to simplify the look of the magazine as much as possible and place maximum emphasis on the content, which is key for us. On the homepage you will mainly find an influx of new articles, but as it turned out, the new home page of Jablíčkář is probably the most controversial change.
That's why we decided to prepare an alternative variant of the homepage, which offers a more clearly structured form of the list of articles for many, and we would like to ask you for your opinion. Until Sunday, we are opening a poll where you can vote on which form of the new Appleman you prefer, and we will adjust according to your feedback, because the satisfaction of our readers is important to us.
You can view the two possible forms of the home page in the gallery below, or directly on the website. Variant 1 is represented by the current homepage a you can view variant 2 in more detail here. Once you're clear on which form of the new Applejack is better, vote in the poll below.
At the same time, we will be happy to listen to all your other comments, ideas and tips on what needs to be improved, changed or fixed on the new website, because more eyes see more and at the same time, when moving to a sharp website, not everything always turns out as expected. Therefore, please write to us in the comments below the article or to the address redakce@jablickar.cz.
We believe that you will like the new Jablíčkář!
PS: Just before launch, there is also a new look for the apple bazaar. We'll let you know when it's up and running.
The 6 looks better on the 1s Plus
But the original website looked much better - it had an original and tasteful design. This is just a failure. It's an attempt at minimalism, but it's obvious that it's not well done.
Return the original one.
Otherwise, thumbs up for the opportunity to debate it.
Oh, and if you really want to stick to it, go to imagazine on your mobile phone - it looks much better if you stretch the images to the edges. Or applehelp, another option.
And the top menu could disappear too - it takes up a lot of space.
I'm in favor, the top big pictures also take up too much space... :-/
I really miss the FORUM AND BAZAR here!!!
Don't worry, as promised at the end of the article, the bazaar is about to launch. We will also add a click to the forum.
Great! :)
Of these two, it's definitely Variant 2, but I would add a short annotation to the individual articles, or perhaps the first paragraph, it's terribly unused like that - a waste of white space... it looks strange. The huge tiles seem much more important to me - I really didn't understand what they are for, are they the latest articles, or the most read articles, or the articles selected in some other way? If it's just chronological order, then I see no reason to display the first few any differently than the rest. If they are the most read, then again I see no reason to devote so much space (full screen) to them, because the regular reader is not interested. And then the drop-down menu - please go away.
Variant 1 has a good introduction, but the listing is poorly edited... just play with the white background in the picture, which is like a title....
The first option is terrible and a lot of people would stop coming here. I also go elsewhere more often. The second option is better, maybe there could be a brief information about the content under the title of each article, but it can survive without it. And what both variants have in common is the top, and that's something horrible. It takes up a lot of space, it doesn't fit into the style of the website (at least for variant 2), it's poorly organized, it looks active, but only to the eye (it doesn't react to a click) - it reacts to the cursor or a finger moving the window by dimming it - why , when I just focused on this and want to see it? Shouldn't it be the other way around? After all, we want to highlight what the website visitor stopped at and not hide it from him.
I'd like option 2, but without the top part - I'd like to see the new articles in the list along with the others, because otherwise I practically can't see them. The top part is terrible, confusing and delays if I want to read something from it, so I skip it and go straight to the list of articles below.
It's nice that people can choose. Otherwise, here: http://ukrainianiphone.com/ is an example of a website whose design I really like and I like to go there. I hope you take a look and take only the best and create something of your own. The so-called a new site, but from the same bones. :D :)
Yes, this is what a modern minimalist website looks like. Very nice.
I would also like to mention the rating of the posts (thumbs up or down) - it is simply not possible without logging in. Isn't that a shame? I think that this is how you come up with maybe 90% of such evaluations, and elsewhere in a larger number of posts I orientate myself precisely by their evaluations. I posted here quite often from different devices and I didn't want to log in to disqus everywhere and log out again (because I often wrote a post for someone else who was somehow automatically logged in and after writing there was no other option than to send it as him).
I don't like the fact that since 6/2 (is it related to the new design?) only a maximum of two sentences appear in the RSS reader, so I can't actually read anything without Internet connectivity. Is this targeted? If so, then I probably understand the reason, but please confirm, so that in that case I can remove Jablíčkář from the RSS.
I would recommend editing the link to the articles so that you only need to click on the image and you don't have to hit the title (PC, firefox)
..in the top bar of articles.
I have been waiting for your new design for a long time, the previous one was really significantly outdated. Most things work great on the new one. But the main page is a huge mess. When I open the main page, I don't know where to look at all, my eyes are ticking from side to side, trying to find some order to quickly read the titles of the article and can't find it. Well, after a while I leave your website, because I'm not really interested in it that much. Most of the time I just come to quickly read the titles of the headlines if by any chance an article is not worth reading. These captions must be clearly visible and arranged in some order so that the visitor can read them as quickly as possible.
Using big images looks cool and I like them myself, but in your case it's really bad and very amateurish to use them. Large pictures have a great use in photo albums, travel articles, etc. simply where the photos are concerned. But you have over half a page of your photo for articles "application week" etc. where the photo is not important at all. The rest of the images are just random photos of iPhones and Macs (or huge app logos) depending on what you're writing about. 80% of your photos are simply "stock" photos so that the article has a photo, and it is clearly wrong to put such photos in such a large size, regardless of the fact that they make it unpleasant to read the article titles, which in your case are the most important thing that attracts visitors.
I don't like to write negative comments anywhere and I welcome your design change, but I really couldn't forgive myself for this comment...
Oh, and I'd like a different font.
This doesn't look modern, it's so condensed with losses - something more airy, simpler, modern.
And to somehow tame advertising - it can also look tasteful.
I would like to return the ability to click on the image inside the article to its original size, I used it a lot now I miss it.
Otherwise, very nice for me, I prefer option 2, I already voted.
And thank you for the opportunity to influence the shape of this website. :-)
I am not very satisfied, mainly with the poorer clarity and poorer readability of the font.
The main problem is that I can't zoom the text of the article either freely or in increments on the iPad.
So unreadable for me and unfortunately because of this I would leave an otherwise popular website as a reader.
Option 2 is clearer.
The surfaces and unflattering design are spreading like an epidemic. It's a shame that you fell for it too.
Hello, I have one comment. On mobile devices, it is not possible to switch to the desktop version, which is quite annoying, especially on an iPad in a vertical position. I would be very happy if this option were added here.
I never liked the mobile versions.
Dread, fury and horror...
For example, the font - the title of the article is sans serif, the content is a serif font - an abomination that does not even fit the flat design of the pages. The title of the article is in regular font, but the links to other articles have titles in capital letters. The discussion, in contrast to the article, has a sans serif font. Each font used is a completely different font cut. The header of the website is again capitals and another font. God, cut off the balls of the one who did this and the head of the one who approved it.
Further, for example, in this article - poll with English Vote and View Results - great English component on the Czech website. Front page - spread out photos, the arrangement of which in three columns has any meaning - none. Then the unused space under them into a narrow noodle for other articles. You can't see any preview of the article, if it makes sense to read it at all. There is no direct link to the discussion with the post number. Why does the column on the right only scroll for a moment and then stop scrolling? What is the logic of ordering the articles on the right? The thing about the top photos is the white text directly on the photo and the other articles below have a white frame and black text - the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing...
Does the light with the number mean how big of a piece of shit it is? So put that fire in your logo, because finishing a website like this is really an art.
Try to learn from 9to5mac.com, for example, from which you translate articles - clear design of articles one after the other with a preview of the content and clicking on the entire text directly on the main page without the need to go to detail - coordinated font and overall design.
You are a website about Apple, so be inspired by Apple - simplicity is beauty, this is disgusting.
so 9to5mac is not a suitable example. the visitor is forced to scroll like a spring before scrolling through the article previews and a bunch of ads to the topics that interest him. So it's not an overview of the article. unusable without a reader
There is adblock for ads and if you don't go there once a month, then the approx. 5 articles per day are on two pages. I'm not saying that it's the ideal of the web, but at first glance I can see if I should read the article and after reading it, I don't have to load another page filled with advertising and tracking cookies (thanks to Ghostery and AdBlock).
so thanks to users like you they will definitely break. I currently have adblock and ghostery disabled on applecari...
Because of me, they certainly didn't do the website before and they won't do it after either, even if I had both disabled :-)
When my own creation prevails here over copying foreign websites, I'll just turn it off, until then there's nothing to "pay" for.
The website freezes when scrolling, I have a Macbook Air 2011. I have no problem on other websites. The popup red bar is awful, could it be there all the time or at all?
I would return it to its original form :)
the pages in the design for which you unfortunately decided also have to be adjusted to a sensible form via css, especially fonts
maybe these "enlargements" can look good on the retinas (I say they can, I have no experience)
on a 24" monitor I feel like I'm in the cinema, a trend is a trend no matter how crazy it is..
someone pointed out the fonts above - I can't help but agree with that
edit: one scrolls before getting anywhere .. it's desperate, desperate!
I liked the original form a lot better, I also really miss the bazaar! I already wrote a question by email, because of the bazaar, unfortunately no answer came.
I also liked the original form better. Transparent, clear. Agreement.
And I also miss the bazaar very much, I would underline this 3 times.
If there was a bazaar for Apple like the paladix bazaar for Foto, it would be great!
So there you go.
We are working hard on the return of the bazaar, we still need to fine-tune the last details. We expect to launch next week at the latest.
e.g. this website also uses the "popular" design .. but the surface is used better, let yourself be inspired ... http://www.neowin.net/
So I'll add some more observations from this humus - aka how to kill a website by redesigning just for the sake of redesigning:
– the lines – some are red and some are white, after running some are underlined and some are not, some are recolored to a different color and some are not – why on earth is it different every time? Mixing together a bunch of different styles covered on the net is not the way to go
- why do the lines in the maxi images above move up when hovering? So that the user, like a mouse, doesn't get hit when he misses it? And if so, why is it only up here and not in other articles? The same darkening of the images - the top ones do it, the others don't - just a patchwork of several different styles of displaying article links
– why do you use a different shade of red on the header and lines than you have in the logo? Especially when it's close to each other, it hits the eyes. Either use the same or make it a different color
- why is there information about the latest posts in other articles on the right side of the article? If you stick something to the article, ideally related articles, this has no logic
Oh, there are also comments on the matter here. Interesting. Well, nothing, one less visitor.
option 3 is missing there - return to the original ..
I personally miss the action on applications... it was a useful sidebar...
We are preparing the return of this widget, we will notify you again about discounts.
Thanks for returning the ability to click on the image inside the article to its original size.
Great :-)
No glory, I would leave it as it was before, readable and clear, so even for the mobile version it is humus (don't be angry). Stuffing text into photos is total chaos.
100 points for clarity... what was wrong with the old design after the UI party?
mistake the third option – leave the flood design
What is the difference between those variants?
Variant No. 2 won, which is already deployed. It offers a clearer one-column list of articles with small previews.
I'm looking instead of 4 mega photos there are now three of the same size. At my resolution, it takes up about 30x10cm on the screen... so you can say half the screen :-)
Please change those introductory photos to a third, put the text in some box below them... and you are on a reasonable start with a new design.
I don't know if you haven't tried it and scroll the homepage on your iPhone. it's really all wrong :-)
But thanks again, you're listening and trying to tweak that initial design.
Díky
It happens to look great on a 13″ MBPr :-)
I'm watching the changes with great excitement and I have to say that since the first dramatic and rather unfortunate change, things are gradually moving for the better (size of images, animations, bars, etc.). I praise I would still consider reducing the size of the three top images (I'm watching on a 13″ MBP, so I can see one link to the article below them) and above all, I would like an explanation on the basis of which algorithm the three images/articles are selected - they are certainly not the latest ( so I follow it), they are certainly not the most discussed (that can be calculated), so the most watched is still offered (I don't know the numbers, but it doesn't seem intuitive to me). I have a bit of a problem when I open the website - I look and I keep seeing the same pictures and I leave - only after a while I found out that there are actually new articles at the bottom and I'm missing them because I just didn't scroll down. Now it's a little better, firstly because I know it and secondly because I see one more link under the pictures. But the ignorance of the selection algorithm still "bothers" me :-)