Sunday, January 25, 2009

Welcome to the new Red RC

Welcome the new Red RC

Red RC is pleased to introduce our all new website for 2009. Over 4 months in the planning stages, and following some super human efforts by Ruben d’Arco to get the site done, we now have a new product review and articles section as well as an updated look and faster loading times. As well as the new site, we have also taken some new people on board, Sebastian Suerstedt, formerly of RC Car & Fun (Racer Germany), will be handling the bulk of our product reviews, while Oisin O’Briain who you know from our live event coverage will be overseeing our articles section.

Currently we are only at the beginning with our new sections, but already have some great new content. We expect to have 2 – 3 new product reviews, and up to 2 new articles a week, as well as our usual daily news.

As the site is still new you may happen upon some bugs, if so then please report them to us and we will get straight onto fixing them.

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1. Roelof - January 25th, 2009 at 22:26

I know advertisement is good but more than 50% of the page in width is in my opinion overdone….
But I will get used about and indeed it looks faster.

2. Mick - January 25th, 2009 at 22:54

Same as first post. The site text space is much smaller then the add space on the site. Hard to know what is an add and what is Red RC content.

3. Jilles Groskamp - January 25th, 2009 at 22:56

Hey guys,

Awesome look and layout of the new website!!
Keep up the good work!

Jilles

4. Ruben - January 25th, 2009 at 23:05

Although the adds might be a lot, they are needed :)

The right side of the site has become a bit wider to suite the top featured image, the banners changed to a more squere box. The box has the same amount of pixels so basicly there’s the same amount of add space as in the previous site :)

5. Eoghain - January 25th, 2009 at 23:20

Hi Roelof / Mick, Thanks for the feedback. I understand your concern. Unfortunately we need to work to the constraints of the majority of users still using a 1024 x 768 resolution screen. We would love to make the site wider to make the content larger, but we are stuck between these size constraints and making the site viable. As Ruben said it is really was a task to figure out how to work the layout and luckily our advertisers were good enough to create us completely new banners for this change.

Hi Jilles, thanks for your comments.

Everyone else. We had some image bugs in the reviews, these are now fixed and all the images are now high resolution when you click them. Also on older posts some of the images are not formatted correctly. This will be done really soon.

6. Jörg Unkelbach - January 25th, 2009 at 23:21

Hi to the Redrc Team and especially to Sebastian,

Lite the new way the site is going. I will keep watching as this is THE RC news & Information page on the net for me.

Greeets from Germany

7. Anon - January 26th, 2009 at 00:45

How about a fluid design? Slightly more involved in terms of CSS, but it would allow people to take advantage of larger monitors without forcing netbook users etc. to scroll… the redesign does look good, though :)

8. Eoghain - January 26th, 2009 at 01:39

Hi Anon, I have been thinking of this and have said it to my programmer. If we can do it, we will make this fluid design ASAP.

Thanks,
Eoghain

9. Scotty Ernst - January 26th, 2009 at 04:09

Hi Guys,

Great Job, I love the new site, really is sharp.

See you in Poland.

Scotty

10. Darryl (New Zealand) - January 26th, 2009 at 04:11

Looks good
Pitty about extra advertising space,, but hey if thats whats needed to pay for the faster speed then so be it.

If it was needed to pay to access some of the site, I’d be in for that, if it was resonable

11. Pooh_White - January 26th, 2009 at 06:59

I really like it. Good 2 see some thing new. I’ll get used 2 the changes. Keep Up the good work!

12. J. - January 26th, 2009 at 07:42

Good for profit margin, bad for content. I’d much prefer that the site be based on good content and good layout, advertisements a distant second priority. This change lessens the appeal for me to visit. It looked better before…

Adblock to the rescue! ;-) …but why force us to use tools to make the site more acceptable?

13. Stefan Günther - January 26th, 2009 at 09:15

Hi RedRC,

great site! It is and will stay my first click after the PC is up and the last before bed time :-)

You have revolutionized the way to stay informed in our hobby. Thanks for that.

Best regards,

Stefan

14. Ronald Baar - January 26th, 2009 at 09:18

Fresh new look, nice next development.

Wider screeen app would be great.

Ronald Baar

15. Brandon - January 26th, 2009 at 09:25

When I first come on the site after these changes I was immediately pissed. It was too much. Too much space for adds. But after a couple more visits I really like the new layout!

16. Thomas Peter - January 26th, 2009 at 09:44

Hi guys,

super job – great site – go aheat.

See you in Nürnberg ?

Thomas Peter

17. Stephan - January 26th, 2009 at 09:54

I love the new layout. Good work, guys! :-)

Just the 11px-font in the articles is a little bit too small.

18. Irish Motorsport News - January 26th, 2009 at 10:41

What about a subscribers section where members can pay a small fee per month or year and be able to log on without seeing any ads?
That way you can still generate revenue and users can view the site with less or no ads.

Niki

19. Richard - BADMCC - January 26th, 2009 at 11:34

Congratulations on the new look website.

Looking forward to more news and articles from the extended crew.

Keep up the good work.

20. Eoghain - January 26th, 2009 at 12:09

Hi Guys, Thanks for all the comments. I have had talks with my developer and we are looking into the dynamic width, which we hope to have in place in the next few days and especially for Stephan we also plan to have a button to be able to increase, or reduce again, the size of the text depending on your preference. Other small things are being looked at too, so thanks once again for all your input.

21. KS Chu - January 26th, 2009 at 13:45

The site is nice and neat now….

22. john - January 26th, 2009 at 14:30

33% RC and 66% publicity :((((

23. PH - January 26th, 2009 at 14:58

bad, bad, bad!
Too small boxes for feature text and pictures. Too small text size. Too much adds at the right.
…and I still get error messages all the time when loading the pages (both at home and at work).

24. JP - January 26th, 2009 at 16:31

Too much pub but its fine for the old users.
nice work!

Greetings from Portugal

25. dom - January 26th, 2009 at 18:22

looking good :D but i will say too many ads. however this is essential to the site’s survival so its fine with me ;)

26. luca - January 26th, 2009 at 19:56

Hi,
i am personally disappointed at first impression. It is obvious that ads are needed…but i get the feeling….the web-page was changed…to add more ads. you must know. best regards

27. you - January 26th, 2009 at 20:37

this is a freaking joke, over 50% of the site is ads, give me a break here… lol

28. Julian - January 26th, 2009 at 20:55

Ok to be honest at first I thought OMG! But then after the second or third visit I got used to it. The ads always appear at the same place so just focus on the middle column! And hey they even offer real editorial content now (not only the companies press releases)! U moaners ever read that? And they promise more of it! Go ahead guys!

29. Eoghain - January 26th, 2009 at 21:15

Hi guys, Again just to let you know that we are listening to your comments. We hope to have some changes in place by the end of the week, the dynamic width is very tricky and requires quite a bit of re-coding. So stay tuned for the end of this week/weekend.

30. hannes - January 26th, 2009 at 22:18

I can barely see anything i´m interested in … NEWS!!! I like the reviews and stuff, but please place the news more prominently.
And bigger font size and pics please :-)

31. Tom - January 26th, 2009 at 23:13

Hi, smaller content area, smaller font, supersize ads :(
Please give us dynamic width as fast as possible, this is terrible even on my 1280*1024 monitor, not to mention PC at work with 1680*1050, thats just ridiculous.

32. Corwyn - January 27th, 2009 at 01:43

The only thing a fluid center div will do is make the posts look weird…I definetely wouldn’t recommend it. A fixed width site is the norm with today’s sites, so if you work on anything, I would recommend getting a little more creative with the ads. There aren’t too many sites running the same ads on every page, and since you’re running an OpenX ad server (excellent choice by the way), you could easily sell your ads on a per impression base, in turn freeing up a ton of acreage, giving you the freedom to widen the center content and narrowing up the ad space.

WordPress 2.7 rocks, by the way :)

33. JonehRC - January 27th, 2009 at 05:33

Congrats on the new layout, Eoghain. I was surprised at first. I thought I came to a wrong website. Haha. Maybe I’m used to the Red color on top :D

I understand the Sponsor Ads part. It makes me no difference to me. It’s needed for web continuity. Just a matter of getting use to it. All the best and more great great news as always.