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IMDB Redesigns

By Michael Calore December 5, 2006 Categories: Visual Design

ImdbThe Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has redesigned and now looks less like it’s trapped in 1998. The site appears to have undergone a fairly significant facelift overnight.

The IMDB has a long way to go before it can claim to be web 2.0, but the new design is at least easier on the eyes and seems to load a little faster. The IMDB could have benefitted from some collapsing menus or tabs, but the new design elements are primarily visual and not functionality overhauls.

Regrettable some of the new design could even be considered a step backwards in terms of functionality. The new homepage is significantly longer and several of the small top-ten link boxes are gone.

The new design does move the IMDB toward a more standards based layout, which for the most part eschews tables in favor of more semantic markup. As a poster at the digg article where I discovered the redesign points out, there are some funny bits in the new code, such as the CSS selector #nb15iesux.

Here’s a before and after screen grab:

Imdbold

Imdbnew

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