MySpace gets a slight facelift, becomes slightly more tolerable

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MySpace gets a slight facelift, becomes slightly more tolerable

by Brad Linder Jun 18th 2008

MySpace has rolled out its anticipated site-wide redesign today. There's a shiny new search engine which displays results from your friends first and lets you sort your results by movies, music, the web, or all of MySpace. And site navigation has been improved so that it takes less clicks to get from one part of the site to another.

There's also a new video player which supports higher quality videos playing at 480p resolution. That makes the MySpace video player a lot nicer than YouTube's current offering. But if you're a MySpace traditionalist, don't worry, the site still has its obnoxious side. For example, when you visit the main page you'll be greeted by a huge advertisement which pushes the content about halfway down the window. Classy, right?

And of course, if you're worried that you won't recognize MySpace with its new look and all, you can always install a Firefox plugin that will alert you any time you accidentally find yourself on the social networking site.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: myspace, redesign

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Victor Agreda, Jr. said 5:50PM on 6-18-2008

Alternate title: "Hell installs ceiling fans"

Quikboy said 9:10PM on 6-18-2008

At least it's much better than before. It's much easier to navigate around now. And at least it "looks" a little bit better.

If only it were more easier to find your friends (people make up CRAZY nicknames), and prevent people from tossing trashy codes on their page.

I only use it because a lot of people I know use it.

Matt S. said 9:24PM on 6-18-2008

Somewhere I read they had been working on this design for 6 months or a year or something.. But while the site does look more up to date and overall better loooking.. The space that Brad mentioned in between the header and the login/video player is alittle sloppy, IMHO.

thiel said 10:22PM on 6-18-2008

Can't believe they didn't reskin the music player - still looks 10 yrs old!

Diddle said 6:36AM on 6-19-2008

No, there's nothing redeeming about the facelift. It still remains that MySpace should be named MyBadWebDesignDumpingGround.

michas_pi said 6:42AM on 6-19-2008

Damn, it's not compatible with Firefox 3 yet.

aanidaani said 9:39AM on 6-19-2008

Thank God for Adblock: http://i27.tinypic.com/34nfrjr.png

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