News and New Products

www.edn.com: It's all about you

Take a quick tour of your new site.

By Matthew Miller, Executive Editor, Online -- EDN, 6/6/2005

Welcome to the new www.edn.com. Based on your input, we've thoroughly reengineered your site to focus on your information needs, your favorite content, your time (or lack thereof), and your voice. Here's a quick tour:

• A streamlined home page allows quick scanning of top stories, the current issue, news, new products, technical features, columns, newsletters, blogs, and more. And of course search remains front and center.
• Most of the boxes on the home page also feature a "More" link that lets you quickly browse through an archive containing all stories of that type (for example, check out the News & New Products page).
• A refined list of technical "channels" (available at the top of every page) lets you drill down into EDN's trove of articles based on the technologies most critical to you.
• A new Design Ideas home page provides new ways to search and explore our extensive archive of your favorite type of article.
• Feedback Loop—a virtual bulletin board on every article—allows you to voice your opinions and share knowledge with your peers. Look for it at the top of every article, or see www.edn.com/feedbackloop for a list of active discussions.
• The left side of every article page provides quick links to additional articles by the same author, topic-related articles, and more (click here for an example).
• If you're a print subscriber, look for pointers throughout the print edition that will bring you directly to bonus materials or related articles available online.
• EDN's editor-led blogs (On The Verge and Brian's Brain) invite you to speak your mind on important technical topics.
• The site's new look provides easy-to-read fonts, simpler navigation, compatibility with a wider array of browsers, and faster page-loading times.
• EDN's RSS feeds and e-mail newsletters deliver www.edn.com directly to you.

And we're not done. Coming in July, we'll let you use Google to search the Web without even leaving EDN. And later in the year, we'll unveil extensive upgrades to our own site search engine. So please let me know what you think of the new www.edn.com, as well as your suggestions for further improvements.

After all, it's your site.