Unless this is the first time you’ve ever visited this site* – you probably noticed that we’ve inverted the color palette on the Blog. The aim wasn’t to save your eyesight (though this configuration apparently is easier on your eyes), and we didn’t just make a change for change’s sake.
Rather, we “bleached” the Blog to match our big brother, us.PlayStation.com. In case you haven’t clicked over to the homepage (and you should right now), we’ve redesigned the site to make it easier for you to use.
There are lots of changes – this isn’t just a re-skinning:
- New navigation makes it easy to find games, TV series, movies, and original shows from any page and browse the entire site from one interface.
- New search is powered by Google and lets you find what you’re looking for, instantly.
- Interactive marquees give you video, screenshots and more info about our most exciting content.
- You can easily share anything from videos and screenshots to whole pages with your friends using the “Share” icons on each page.
- Our new Web platform is keeping everything running fast and smooth.
- Finally, and most importantly :-), the PlayStation.Blog is more prominent. You’ll spot new posts on the homepage and throughout the site.
This is our baby, so obviously we think it’s beautiful and perfect, but there might be some hiccups as we get everything up and running. Please be patient while we iron out the inevitable kinks.
Please note that this is just the first phase of improvements we’re planning to make the site easier to navigate, faster to use, and more interesting to visit. And right now we want your input – what do you love? What do you hate? What suggestions do you have?
As far as the Blog is concerned, we’re currently gathering ideas for a full-on redesign, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy the lighter, more readable PSB.
*If this is indeed the first time you’re visiting the PlayStation.Blog, welcome! We’re not always this self-referential.
I prefer Black with White text.
I often work nights or late into the night on a computer screen, and Black on White fatigues my eyes less, in my experience.
I have a Mac, so on pages that are White with Black text, I hit command-option-control-8 to invert everything, so it doesn’t kill my eyes.
darker front
The new design seems very…. European LOL
time for the geeks to b*tch…
the only suggestion i have is fix the avatars. not sure how, but they look out of place.
It’s a fact: 9 out of 10 vampires hate the new blog. Luckily, I’m not a vampire. I still need sunglasses, though…
hey jeff, I like this color it makes it better to read so i don’t squent my eyes out. But when you said “Might be easier to read, but we’ll have a more comprehensive PS3-browser version coming later this year.” Why cant it be sooner than later cause i cant even go to a specific web page on my PS3 slim without it freezing on. and i keep thinking that its the the firmware update thats causing this awell. cause it never froze before i downloaded the 3.15 update…….
everytime i go to this link http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/08/god-of-war-3-review/#continued it always does it cause i wanted to look at the full review but its impossible.
also the blue front need to be a darker and should be more of a blood color
The light-blue highlight text is terrible. You need to pick a darker colour — one with more contrast to the white background.
Go back to the “What We Read” blog post — that list of articles is a headache inducing nightmare.
@ 151
wow i had no idea my mac could do that. now i can save my eyes on every lame blinding-white site i come across, thanks alot man!
It looks like the EU Blog
But you guys need to fix the psp
It now shows all comments red
It should only author as red like it use too
Jeff,
I dig the redesign (especially the new look of us.playstation.com). I do however agree with one other person that said it might be a bit too white. My only recommendation would be to leave the middle post/comment section the way it is but use a dark to mid level grey for the gradient background (or drop the gradient and use a darker grey overall)
Pretty bright. Looks nice, but will take some getting use to.
Should have seen this coming after the redesign PlayStation.com had.
Yeah Jeff, a black screen is better for the eyes then white screen.
Trust me I am a programmer, I tried both. A black screen with white writing compared to a white screen with black writing for hours a day, the black screen is much much easier on the eyes. (Actually that link doesnt say white or black is better, it says they are both “acceptable”)
But the blog looks pretty sweet now. The Euro blog is still owning us though, their site looks so so good. Can we just have the same layout as theirs pleeaase? :)
jeff this is awsome, and i’m not sure if it’s the new look of the blog but i can easily input comments with my ps3 now ^_^
I love the new look! Great work!
cant stand it its all bright
like seriously the black was cool and way less straining on the eyes now i got this massive bright white on my screen that makes me have to squint a little becuase its so bright
kind of bright. just seeing if i can post from my ps3 again.
very nice.
Although I like this new design, its more straining on my eyes, its too bright and the black is great for me and I could view it comfortably, but maybe it just takes some getting used to.
As a blind PS3 gamer, this change doesn’t bother me at all. Don’t have to worry about the white being hard on the eyes :P. However, I would appreciate it if you passed this on to whoever’s in charge, to please please give us the ability to read, send and receive messages from PSN from the browser. This is the only way we’ll be able to fully interact with the site as blind gamers without sighted help, since we could actually use our screen readers on our PC to listen to this info using synthetic speech. We’d also love the ability to queue up downloads, like on xbox 360. thanks for reading!
It would be lovely if I didn’t have to spend half my time logging in constantly! I have to log in to the MAG forums, then I come to the Playstation.blog and have to log in again if I want to comment, then I go to another forum… and guess what – yeah, time to log in again.
Please fix the log in issue and let us log in ONCE. Let this log in apply across the entire Playstation site. Let the log in last longer than 20 minutes.
Frankly, it’s getting easier and faster to go somewhere else for my gaming news. :(
not a fan of having to lower my brightness to view your site. I liked black better personally.
Its good, looks like the UK blog tho
Can we get an option to change it back? I don’t care what studies show, black with white texts saves me from massive headaches.
i preferred the black…
I’m not a fan, but I am thankful that it runs faster. The previous version was slow as molasses.
I can’t login using Firefox. Is that a widespread problem?
Not complaining just for the sake of complaining (which seems to be pretty common in these comment sections) but I preferred the dark background. The white makes my eyes hurt. :(
I actually prefered the black background over the white, its too bright and makes me squint my eyes now.
An option for choosing white or black background would be nice….
I also think it looks “cheap” now and not as modern as the black
Don’t like it one bit. It’s too bright and UNCHANGEABLE. Please give us the option to choose, because letting the users choose is the best way in keeping us happy.
Kinda odd, it feels like the background is not loading… its missing something.
Ow. My eyes. I’d prefer at least an option for the dark look since I prefer that.
i thought i go redirected to the wrong site for a second. good look though.
to jeff about your comment in post 5. this is true what he/she said. white uses not only more power but more bandwidth aswell. and the studies were done on lcd monitors. also this theme really burns your eyes after 5 minutes of reading. 1 more thing could you tell the folks at, the forum to get off their butts and fix the forum? the made it so slow and buggy also took out ps3 support.. thanks for basically ruining our eyes and forum and blog. job well done. also the tests were done on tekzilla you guys, should watch that sometimes.
I’ll be honest, I’m really not liking all this white… The blog looked better the way it was before. If something isn’t broken, then why fix it?
I like the black one.
Great redesign and much more user-friendly. Thanks for getting rid of the black background!!!
Jeff, can you guys do what GameInformer implement in their website? You know, the light switch? This is suppose to be easier on the eye’s, but it’s not. I am not sure what study you guys did, but it was clearly wrong. It has become really annoying to read post because of the new design. Every line is slowing merging together and is very out of focus. Please give us the option to use the black background with white text. This new design is not very user friendly.
Black!
hi i’m new,i’m ok with the color.
Being that I come to the Playstation Blog almost a few times a day to get updated everything Playstation, this is definitely going to get some time to get use to.
Can you guys please add, re-edit feature to the comments, just in case we miss spell something, or even mess up a sentence? Also even maybe a spell check feature?
I personally liked it the other way, it wasnt hard to read for me
seen the blog this way, makes me feel kind of weird. but oh well i think as time passes by i should get used to it.the good thing is that there’s no trouble in to sign in. so, kudos to you guys for that
The top “Playstation Bog” logo/banner should be updated to reflect the rest of the layout. Kinda sticks out still using the old color palette. As long as you guys continue to bring great stuff to the blog, I honestly don’t care what color it is :).
LMAO had to do a double take at first–thought I hit the European Blog or something–but yeah I think I like it :-) Kinda weird at first–I always thought the blog was black to match the PS3’s body–but this white is classy too!
You guys must have read the same article as the EA UK forums as they just went from dark to light. coincidence? or misinformed?
Frankly all the white strains my eyes and gives me a headache. Maybe I need to wear sunglasses when I visit.
The white is very harsh on the eyes. The grey/black was a lot better. Also, the official site is utterly ruined. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get to all the places I could before. It’s horribly broken. You know what they say, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. It definitely wasn’t broke.
Boy, I hope you guys are still working on the bugs for this new website thingy because half the time when I view it, it shows up as plain text. It doesn’t matter if I use IE or Firefox, I usually have to reload at least once and why on earth is the PlayStation website so incompatible with Sony’s own PS3?
Why can’t there be an option for a light or dark theme? That’s the first thing I do on any site, set the theme to dark. White sites suck.
And an option to have the black gamercards again would be great. The white is boring and plain and just don’t look right.
Honestly I am not a fan of the new look. I would love to have the option to go back to the darker theme.