New Feature and Graphical Update: Consolidate Search

[bryantq]

Greetings all! As we continue to make improvements to the slickdeals.net website, we present to you the newly added consolidated search feature.

Due to popular demand, we added a search box in the main menu to help facilitate ease of searches. At the same time we took the opportunity to redo how search works on SD! Now when you search you will be presented with a results page that consolidates searches.

This new result page breaks it down into three well defined sections: frontpage deals, forum threads or posts, and pricegrabber products or merchants.

Also, you may have noticed we updated our logo and some other minor graphical updates

As a result, many users browsers may contain stale data. It would be advised that if you are experiencing any unusual glitches or if anything looks out of place, that you clear your browsers cache

We hope you enjoy this feature, and would love to hear what you think in this thread

[benjie]

I can't believe that we would have such an overtly racist statement on a public website in 2007. The new thumbs up hands are clearly Caucasian, while the thumbs down hands are clearly African American. It doesn't take a lot of thought to realize that this is an obvious reference to white = good and black = bad. This is ridiculous and I demand that you change them immediately, or I will call the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the whole Rainbow Coalition on you.























Sorry, it had to be said, and I figured I might as well get it out there before somebody was enough of an idiot to be serious about it. Interesting new look - I think I could get used to most of it.

[trancer_84]

Looks nice. the "real-looking" thumbs up scares me though.

[random.]

This whole thing is very strange looking I think.

[Brynn]

It's actually messed up for me. The forum and other links up top are missing, and there are misplaced links and buttons all over the top of the page

[random.]

Quote from MrsMcDreamy : It's actually messed up for me. The forum and other links up top are missing, and there are misplaced links and buttons all over the top of the page

Try clearing your cache.

[bryantq]

Try clearing your cookies and cache

Quote from m. : Try clearing your cache.

Jinx!

[random.]

Quote from bryantq : Try clearing your cookies and cache Jinx!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 you owe me a pop?

[sarahhummel]

its beeing jacked up 4 me as well

[persian_mafia]

The search function doesn't work for me. does it work for you guys?

[random.]

Quote from persian_mafia : The search function doesn't work for me. does it work for you guys?

Yes and it's very strange looking.

[D'oh?]

Um... Wow.

What's going on?

It looks like changes are currently being made live, I swear that the logo was different a minute ago.

I like the placement of the new search box (convenient, and is in an intuitive spot), and I'm still digesting the different features of the search results.

I'm not so sure about the other cosmetic changes...
I see that the Home/Coupons/Forums etc menu bar is now aligned to the left. I assume this was to balance the new search box? It seems to feel a bit... off, but I suppose that it will just take some getting used to.

I'm not sure I see how the changes made to the user-information box on the left of each individual post is an improvement. It makes it stand out more, and makes it easier on the eyes to be drawn to the different bits of information... But is having a whole new "console" there (and diverting attention from the actual post contents) a good thing?

The removal of the frame around the "Page x of x" links in the top (or bottom) right corner of each page of a multi-paged thread has something of an opposite effect -- it makes the information stand out less, which again I'm not so sure is a good thing. When my eyes go to the top right of a page looking for the "Next" link, it takes me an extra moment to find it.

[bryantq]

They arent black! lol.

[cnct_agl]

I dunno.. but it's weird..

[sarahhummel]

i dn but i dont like it lol