We don't even know where to commencement…..information technology has been several months of planning, brainstorming, more planning and again brainstorming trying to figure out how to create a new, amend, mod and user friendly design.

We started from the idea of creating a new theme that volition focus more often than not on you, our readers, and providing more content at your finger tips and just a click abroad. Another goal and quite difficult task was to reduce visual clutter to improve usability and nosotros believe nosotros manged to achieve that.

While the old pattern has done an amazing chore offering content in a simple straightforward fashion, we wanted to evolve from that and motility towards a magazine type of pattern, where all the content is well structured and defined.

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The first step was to increment the font size, this has been a request that we have received since last year, we acknowledged it and received a high priority on our list.

By doing that, we implicitly had to go over to a wider reading column, a blueprint feature that we ever wanted to modify. Equally you lot might have detect, we mail service a lot of photos and I mean…A LOT…last yr, there were over14,000 photos uploaded past us. Since we know how much you enjoy seeing photos correct in front end of your eyes, we thought it would exist a peachy idea to show them to you in a larger format.

The increased fonts and the wider central column will substantially increase the overall browsing and reading feel, peradventure now all that tiny, simply even so important text will non be overlooked anymore. Also, the entire commenting system has been revamped, redesigned and  brought upwardly to the current standards. How did we do that? Well, beside the Facebook login that we offered in our previous blueprint also, the comment replies are now threaded, so if you would like to reply to a particular member, only click on the Reply link below their annotate and an indented box will appear. Pretty absurd, correct?

What else have nosotros done? OH Aye…the top menu, which keep in mind, it's a work in progress and information technology will meliorate organized and categories well grouped together. So here, nosotros decided to go with a fairly uncomplicated design, regular text link menus with a sub-carte that will display topics within the chief category, this fashion, nosotros can interruption down at present several models that belong to some of the BMW Series. To a higher place the main menu, we kept the usual Contact and Nearly pages, but to the right of that, nosotros added all the other blogs in our network.

As some of yous might have noticed in the by, we expanded and now we control equal shares in BimmerToday.de, a very successful blog operated past our former contributor, Benny H., and likewise BMWBLOG.ro, the Romanian version of this web log. All these websites serve over 1 million pages to BMW fans effectually the world. Simply more on our future plans in another article…

Incorporated in the menu, you can run into some placeholders nosotros created for auto related services, of course the focus of these pages volition be to provide tools and resources for all the BMW owners, from looking upward new and used BMWs, to car insurance, warranties, financing and even classifieds. In the next few day, all these sections volition be populated and fifty-fifty more content added in the hereafter.

You might accept noticed that our famous German language license plate type of logo is not in that location, simply no worries, it will return shortly since it has been part of our blog from the outset and we intend to keep our identity intact.

Now onto the correct sidebar, one of the nearly important pieces of puzzle in our re-design process. We strongly believe that the sidebar is one of the most powerful, useful and content display tool on an auto related site. If washed well, it tin can help provide the readers interesting information that might be lost within the thousands of past and new articles. Abreast that, it brings upfront some of the most popular articles and accessible with a click of a mouse.

We wanted to continue it adequately clean, so we grouped together some of the things similar Recent Comments, Superlative Articles and our newest invention, Editor's Pick. One time once again, information technology's nonetheless work in progress and nosotros know there are a few bugs that need to be corrected.

Part of our increased usability plan was the addition of pagination to the unabridged blog, then the popular Next/Prev links accept been replaced past bodily folio numbers, so this should assistance you browse back and forth the pages way faster than before.

So in the end, why al this brainstorming? Well, we wanted to create a platform, a base for our future plans than can be built on summit of this new layout without having to make any compromises or overloading the pages even more. Nosotros have been blessed to have such a great community of BMW  fans and non only, formed around our web log and we owe y'all the best experience possible. Your comments, suggestions, feedback and even criticism has always been appreciated, and with your aid and support, we came a long way and we promise, it will only get better.

At present putting away this emotional monologue -at least for us it was- we encourage you to report whatever bugs or issues that you might notice, please feel free to either go out a annotate here or send it through our Contact page.

We hope you enjoy our facelift and while it might not exist better than the 1 on an M3, M5 or Z4, we're confident that you will appreciate information technology.

Many cheers to the talented team of designers and software developers at WP-Design, especially for putting upward with the never ending alter requests and additions. Awesome job Paul and Nicu, and we already look frontwards to our next project.