General 30 Apr 2006 11:06 pm
New unified home page for adobe.com and macromedia.com
Our talented web team has been hard at work for months merging adobe.com and macromedia.com together into one integrated site. As you’ll quickly notice, the team decided to go with the macromedia structure/templates (yeah!) while giving everything a subtle visual refresh. I think it looks really nice.
Go check it out!
www.adobe.com
on 30 Apr 2006 at 11:58 pm 1.Koen De Weggheleire said …
Good job !
I am soo happy that they choose the Macromedia template en structure (hell yeah !), but i am still missing the Macromedia logo at the top a bit ;-p
on 01 May 2006 at 1:13 am 2.nz said …
me too, glad it turned out more like the old macromedia site
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/ next on the cards?
on 01 May 2006 at 5:42 am 3.Ben said …
The new site does look great. Mike, I am hoping you can assure me they did not carry over the absolute worst feature of adobe.com though: IE-only support when purchasing. As of the last time I bought something from the site, maybe a year ago, the store failed silently, during the checkout nonetheless, in any browser other than IE. No warning, no error message, just hanging. It took a call to tech support to find out that Firefox was not supported. From that point on I bought all my company’s Adobe software from third party sites. Did they fix this?
on 01 May 2006 at 7:54 am 4.Patrick said …
Yup the macromedia site was lightyears ahead on that of adobe.com. Good choice!
on 01 May 2006 at 9:17 am 5.Mike Downey said …
Hi Ben -
I believe the plan is to maintain the old Macromedia online store at the store for adobe.com. I also believe the same team that built the Macromedia online store is building something new with Flex.
MD
on 01 May 2006 at 10:42 am 6.Ben said …
Awesome! Good to hear.
on 01 May 2006 at 10:59 am 7.btn said …
The main navigation menus flicker when they drop down over the main Flash animation in Safari Version 2.0.3 (417.9.2).
on 01 May 2006 at 12:56 pm 8.Mike Downey said …
Yeah, they’re still working a few bugs out. The javascript menus also drop behind the SWF on the Flash product page. It should all be fixed shortly.
on 02 May 2006 at 1:24 am 9.chall3ng3r said …
great. the old layout is nice. but what about making it a bit wider?
i guess this will allow more content visible at same time. also, today alot of ppl have > 800×600 resolutions
// chall3ng3r //
on 02 May 2006 at 1:58 am 10.nz said …
Is that new store going to be done in Flex 2?
on 03 May 2006 at 8:39 am 11.Gorka said …
I’m very glad taht you got this, badly Worked worst in IE7 Beta 2 than the old macromedia site. (Clear type issues and Css issues)
on 07 May 2006 at 8:58 pm 12.Saumitra said …
ERROR: Hi - the site looks good but shows incorrectly on IE7.0 with all the top menu items overlapping over each other!!
on 11 May 2006 at 2:13 am 13.leon said …
Visually it looks good and i can appreciate how much effort it took - but it is SOO SLOW. Myself, work colleaugues, net contacts and friends (who are all Flex/Flash developers) are in agreement on this and try to only visit the site when we really really need to - since we have all experienced huge loading delays between page transitions. Shame really that using this site is such an infuriating experience.
on 15 May 2006 at 12:23 pm 14.Cameron said …
Mike,
I was perplexed to see the Adobe site top navbar messed up on the new IE 7 beta last night and I just logged on at work to find the same thing happening in IE 6. The menus are stacked rather than horizontal.
I had a co-worker pull up the site on his mac and the nav-bar links were horizontal but resting above the bar? He saw no menus dropping down either.
I can see this accident lasting like a day on some other site -but this is Adobe -setting an example to the world.
Nearly EVERY computer user out there has an adobe product.
What’s goin on?
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