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Site Redesign Revisited

So, based on the feedback we've had, we've decided to shelve the redesign of Viral Video Chart for the moment and concentrate on a few navigational improvements. We want to make it easier to navigate through the archive of daily and weekly charts. The current archive of number ones provides a very poor way to do this. We've just created a video page so you can view videos without leaving our site and this page needs quite a lot of improvement. We'll be trying to make some cosmetic improvements to the site as we go, but are thinking we will do this incrementally rather than trying to change too many things at once.

Viral Video Site Redesign

It was never our intention to leave the Viral Video Chart quite as design-lite as it is currently. We just wanted to launch it really fast and never got beyond the logo-in-30-point-arial-italic vibe.

Please let us know what you think of the design below.

It still needs some work and we need to put some effort into the logo. We're a bit nervous, because a lot of people have said that they like the no-frills minimal design aesthetic of the current undesign. We need to balance that with the need for a recognisable identity. It's our intention to let lots of bloggers and sites syndicate the chart, so we're going to need a recognisable logo / brand / mark that can be stamped onto these syndicated charts and which can communicate that the data's from us and it's not just some editor's top-ten picks. (The design above shows a top ten, but the site will continue to display the top 20 videos).