A Little Different Look and Feel

I like the new header. Way better than before.. It's always great to have new updates every now and then. 

I also like the new look.

So far, so good.  Change is NOT always good, but I like the clean look.

Just something new to adjust to, but I'm sure all will be well, given time.

I do have one question which I was going to address to you heading AR, but that feature has been removed.  Previously, when I went to review Traffic, it gave me the number of times that my Profile had been reviewed.  I was going to write to AR to see if and how, we could track or identify who and where these were coming from.  Before my previous website carrier went down and closed abruptly, my previous website had a feature identifying where and what links all my visitors were coming from.  This helped me to identify where my marketing efforts were working well.

Now I notice that this Feature has been removed from the Traffic section.

Any ideas or comments?

Thanks for reading.

I like the fact that you are continually striving to improve AR.  I wish you would go back to the old way of putting comments on one page.  It's much more difficult to keep track of comments over multiple pages.  If it's not possible to put them all on one page, at least increasing the allowable number of comments on each page would be an improvement.

Thankful that you continue to monitor the SEO that makes our blogs shine!

Will respond after some "getting used to"....not there yet...

Bob - things don't seem to be working right when I use G+ button.  I can no longer change the picture from the AR button.  Hopefully, you guys can fix that soon. (I'm using firefox, if that helps).

Brian- Above the numbers and a little to the right, you'll see a 'Show All' button.  This is an easy one click to have all comments displayed so you don't have to navigate from page to page.

Hi Kerrie - I very quickly looked at a small portion of the changes that have been made.

I find the flyout windows that appear whenever the mouse cursor goes by the top row of menu options to be rather annoying.  If I want to see the list of featured posts or product reviews, I can simply go to the homepage.  I don't need to see a huge flyout everytime the cursor is near the top of the screen.

Also, I don't see the "States / Province" menu anymore on the home page or the other pages.  I would have thought that this would be very useful to find people in various locations across Canada and the USA.

Improvements are always good. Keep it going AR

I will play around with it and give you some feedback.

Active Rain.  The look is great but the drop down every time the mouse howers over it is annoying.

I agree that the mouse activated flyouts are annoying, and way to big

Bob/Kerrie - not sure if you saw Roger Mucci's post:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/3731171/the-new-look-is-good-the-new-features-are-fine-but-those-drop-down-menus-

I think this captures an issue that needs to get fixed somehow and it's annoying a LOT of us.  Overall, this change is good, but the drop down menus are a huge annoyance.  It would be easier if you clicked/scrolled on the menus (like most websites) rather than it popping up when you scroll over.  Also, if you insist on having it pop up, at least limit it to the actual space of the menu.  Right now, when I scroll over the gray line below w/ the second menu, the top menu pops up and also the white line in between.  It's really annoying because then you have to scroll over tot he side to unsee the menu and then scroll back under. I hope that made sense.  Overall, I really do like this and there are fewer clicks, but his is one big annoyance that I hope you can fix. 

The appearance is great but as some have stated, the flyouts, when you are working on a blog, etc... are somewhat annoying. Perhaps it will just take a little time to get use to it. Other than that - everything is awesome!!!

Debbie,

I have raised your concern with our developers about the hover vs. click options on 'resources' and 'blogs'. I'm waiting to hear from them why we did it the way we did it and how much time it will take to change it. Based on what they tell me, we will certainly look at changing to a click option. 

I think it looks great, but am with the annoying hover drop-down.  I will tell you that when I am on my Macbook Air which I use for traveling, it is difficult to get to the "View More" option because it is below the fold.  The drop-down for featured blogs on the Blogs button is overkill since those featured blogs are the first think you see when you sign on.  Thanks

Hi Bob...would love to just have my AR blog and outside AR blog be my mine online tool, I have too many other stuff