Where is my account balance, why fonts are so big, why it uses half of my screen real estate and two lines per image?

it sucks and should have been left alone, but then I'm sure it will grow on me and by the next time it changes I'll say it sucks and should have been left alone

To all those people that can't find columns back, etc...
The design is more spacious than before (a modern trend in design) and it changed from a 800px template to a 1000 or 1024px one. That means your window should be at least 1000px. You should maximize your browser screen and perhaps reduce the size of your sidebar to get the 1000px. If the fonts and the layout are too big, don't you know the CTRL- key to zoom out? 

...... but it is a bit too much like the new BigStock and 123rf for me.

that's was I thought too. Admittedly I liked the older design better but I don't mind the new one as long as sales keep coming in:)

Yeah, they could change a color scheme to pastel-blue and white. I prefer less contrast.

Quote from: Freedom on August 07, 2010, 19:15

In addition, Creative Network sounds more sophisticated than Friends. Many people in the former CN cannot be said as friends at all. Only a few have become friends. To think everyone in your CN is a friend is a bit pre-mature.

Agreed, 'friends' is so downmarket Facebook-like. They're probably trying to appeal to a much younger audience.

I didn't see the "friends" thing. This is a business, it should remain professional. Creative Network was perfect, that's exactly what it is.

It does look a lot like all the other sites now. The hand holding the .95 credit sign and to the right and some of the old-fashioned icons reminds me of Lucky Oliver. And blue is my favorite color so I would agree that they should have left the color the same as it was before.

Other designs have been tried since but they just didn't work as well.

Yes, I much prefer my horse drawn carriage to these new fangled automobiles.

I don't like the 'friends' thing either.  As much as I enjoy the banter in the forum when I (rarely) take a look, I see this as a business site via which I submit work, not a social networking site.

Just uploaded a photo and realized uploading is even more time consuming now with to many options in  disambiguation  for insatance if you included the word hat among youe KW'd then you'll see soo many different type of hats in the list to choose from .that hurt my eyes:((((((((

And after I had gone through the whole keywording prosess, and klicked 'save' - I got an error saying I had to have more than 5 keywords....every keyword was gone   So I had to use backspace, and start the whole prosess over again! It happened to at least 5 of the 10 images I submitted!

My first reaction to the new site was I thought I stumbled upon a funeral web site.
Deadly dull.

Yes it does! Maybe it's a tribute to our dead sales (which are probably about to nose-dive even further).

I'm sure I'll get used to navigating around in the new design, but when you list your uploads, I hope they will figure out how to make each row skinnier so that more images can be listed on a single page.  Maybe this varies by browser ... I'm using firefox 3.6.8 on windows.

I agree

Anyone who knows about big sites (which is probably most of us to some degree) will know that a new site is often much more about the structure and architecture than it is about the look and feel. And the stuff under the hood seems good so far. No major outages.

To their great credit that there have been no obvious disasters and there is much to like about the new site. Sure there are lots of little things here and there which will surely be debated and addressed.

So the point is that there might be some things which need adjusting before further changes. But this is looking like a big success so far in so much as nothing major seems to have gone wrong.

Quote from: alias on August 08, 2010, 14:50

Anyone who knows about big sites (which is probably most of us to some degree) will know that a new site is often much more about the structure and architecture than it is about the look and feel. And the stuff under the hood seems good so far. No major outages.

To their great credit that there have been no obvious disasters and there is much to like about the new site. Sure there are lots of little things here and there which will surely be debated and addressed.

So the point is that there might be some things which need adjusting before further changes. But this is looking like a big success so far in so much as nothing major seems to have gone wrong.

I'd give it a few weeks before making any comment on that ...

Ditto.