With a new deviated look.
Published on July 12, 2008 By Snowman In WinCustomize News

Our friends over at dA have busted their behinds to make yet another version of their great site.
Countless hours/days/weeks/months have gone into makeing the site even more convenient to use, and I know alot of us do check the site more or less every day.
I know, I do.
Listing all the changes would be pure madness and probably fill most of the frontpage, so you'll just have to go see for yourselves

http://news.deviantart.com/article/52608/


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on Jul 12, 2008
Seems to me they have done as much as they can to make ads more visible to non-subscribers. I had an account all last year, no ads, but sure wasnt any faster. The ads are now under the Name, Messages etc, area. instead of at top of page..
on Jul 13, 2008
Are you a subscriber, Phoon?
yep. Still slow as hell.
on Jul 13, 2008
I really like it!
on Jul 13, 2008
To many runtime errors!
on Jul 13, 2008
I was visiting dA probably around half an hour before they changed the look...and I had to leave the PC for some time...I remember coming back and refreshing the page... Oh what a shock it was...
on Jul 13, 2008
I like it. Will take a bit of getting used to but that's progress for you.........
on Jul 13, 2008
From the drop down box nothing I did got the 'Go' button to work. Poor first impression.
on Jul 13, 2008
OK just wondering what so great about deviant art i been there just a few times no matter what they do to it i don't get what's so great about it, what i hate about it,1.its slow,2.i get a string error on every page.3.pictures are to small to do anything with them as far as having any wallpaper out of them so what's so great about it, any of you guys sell your work there i mean do people really buy prints from there and how does that work and how much of a percentage do you get for each print sold, just wondering.
on Jul 13, 2008
3.pictures are to small to do anything with them as far as having any wallpaper out of them so what's so great about it

You need to actually browse the wallpaper gallery for that.
on Jul 13, 2008
PicLens support. Sweet.....
on Jul 13, 2008
OK just wondering what so great about deviant art i been there just a few times no matter what they do to it i don't get what's so great about it, what i hate about it,1.its slow,2.i get a string error on every page.3.pictures are to small to do anything with them as far as having any wallpaper out of them so what's so great about it, any of you guys sell your work there i mean do people really buy prints from there and how does that work and how much of a percentage do you get for each print sold, just wondering.
Here's an idea. Go to them, and ask them
on Jul 13, 2008
Although I figured out how to navigate the site and do what I needed to do, it is still very confusing in spots. ( When will they learn that simplicity is everything!
on Jul 13, 2008
i really can't think of one thing i like about it, not the color scheme, not the layout, and since my subscription just recently ran out, i've come to see that this version is around twice as ad intensive and invasive with a huge box on every page saying "hey hey, click here and subscribe to get rid of this annoying "click here to subscribe" box! because if we can't provide any real appeal, or real benefit to subscribing, we'll just hold the site ransom to you by making it suck till you do".

"SUBSCRIBE TO
DEVIANTART NOW!

Remove ads... and experience deviantART the way it was intended!"

if you wanted me to experience the site the way it was "intended~", well... you sort of missed the perfect opportunity to do so when making this new version, otherwise what's the point?

anyone else find themselves missing jark?

i suppose though, i do love the footer, my problem with it is i think it should either be the header or be the home page itself, it's the only thing i want to see on the current layout and i don't like scrolling down to the bottom every time. it would also be cool to customize the footer to add more channels to it as we were able to before.

oh well. =/

on Jul 13, 2008

DeviantArt is good for some unique wallpapers (e.g. photography, Vista/OS X wall mods, ect.) and some simple, minimalistic skins. I find stuff there that I would never see on Wincustomize (or anywhere else for that matter).

It just shows you how HUGE the skinning/graphics community is!

WinCustomize is still the best, though...

on Jul 13, 2008
You know.. while were at it... I'm sick of people who want to flash themeselves naked all over DA using the excuse "oh you can simply block adult content if you want to'

First off.. I shouldn't have to block something.. I should have to log into it to see it.. and secondly.. What about all the lil kids, older folks, not so PC savvy that don't even know there are ways to block this stuff from their account, or for those that dont even HAVE an account.. I think It's an awful thing that DA continues to put nudity on their Main pages... Male or female.

I shudder to think how many underage children have opened DA to see some guys chopper as a Daily Dev.

I think it's ridiculous.  

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