Welcome to the new Download.com
Dear users,
Over the past months, we've been hard at work redesigning our site. You may have got a sneak peak at our new look and feel or you may be seeing it for the first time today. Either way, we hope that you enjoy the smoother, sleeker, and easier-to-navigate pages.
Wondering what, exactly, has changed? Here's a brief tour:
Easier-to-find content: We've reexamined our site layout to make it easier to find the software that matters to you. We've moved our Most Popular software lists front-and-center so that you can see which titles currently top our charts. We've also designed tabs with your operating system in mind, so you won't have to wade through software that you don't need.
Our new, tabbed design helps you find the software most relevant to you.
(Credit: CNET Download.com)Faster page load time: Our engineers put the site on a diet. The result? Much quicker load times for each page.
New video player: We still put a video player on many of our pages, but this one looks nicer. It plays in wide screen (16:9 aspect ratio) and makes its many features--closed captioning, full-screen mode, and links to download or embed any of our videos--easier to find and use.
Our new video player now displays wide screen video.
(Credit: CNET Download.com)Better search results: Our Download.com search now returns blog posts and videos along with software titles. Also, if you like, you can customize the number of search results you get with each query.
Now you can more easily sort your search results.
(Credit: CNET Download.com)We don't want to fix what isn't broken, however. The backbone of Download.com remains the same: more than 100,000 downloads, all guaranteed spyware-free.
Like what you see? Frustrated by the change? We want to know what you think, so please send us feedback.
Best,
The CNET Download.com team
Lindsey Turrentine is an executive editor at CNET.
I don't know why they don't have a link....
But they shut it down just a week ago...
They now redirect it to last.fm...
Which is crap in comparison...
Don't get me wrong - Overall, I like the new site - it has some important new and improved features, but ........... I still miss my yellow background and font (miss my mum too).
Please return the "updated" badge on my watch list - it's a bummer to check all my software downloads for any updates (I know you email me, but I sometimes forget to - or don't have time to - react straightaway). Also, would it be so difficult to keep my preferences on the watch list sceen (ie: no of items displayed per page) and not have to re-input every time I visit. Small issues, but that's the world we now live in since Google first let us users start getting our own way!!
Actually, i like (not love) the new design. Loads faster than before. Except for the font, MUSIC Section as kheas said, layout, and background.
The background theme is too classic. The yellow one is unique.
Maybe CNET can change the background theme. What about linear colours like the one before (Yellow to White, but i bet CNET can compare better colours with the layout theme.
And, about the font. Is CNET using "Amethyst" or "Constantia" as font? Change it please...
Some features don't work perfectly. Such as some images can't be loaded (I tried using Opera and Mozilla Firefox to check it, and both browsers can't load some images)
@kheas, you can still find music.download.com here: http://music.download.com/ . It's been removed from the main site navigation, however.
@certdb2dba, you can find all freeware by clicking the "Top Freeware" link at the very bottom of the left-hand navigation bar.
Keep those comments coming,
Lindsey Turrentine
Also the search, why is that I cannot use the word "downloads" anymore? That used to get me the latest in down loads thatI would check each day. I tried other words to no avail. Why because the "by date" function apparantly no longer works, as I am getting scrambled dates instead of being in order.
Are you sur their are people in control there that know what they are doing. You may not know just how important CNet is to the world, but I sure do. I would hate to go back to Source Forge and other again. CNet WAS the best!
Thank you.
http://www.download.com/:///:///:///:///1770-2001_4-0.html?searchtype=blogs&query=password%20manager&tag=srch
Try the search again!
Whoever thought of this is a moron
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by gcanadian
August 31, 2008 3:30 PM PDT
- Where is the software to download????!!!!!
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Showing 1 of 3 pages (67 Comments)I did a search on "virus" software and all I get are blog entries?!!
What the hell?!!
PLEASE -- REVERT THE SITE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL.
Don't fix something that 'aint broke.