Good job B&O. Idea and Layout is very well done. Need to get some improvements like others say but still fresh, young and elegant. 

hfat wrote:

The Product-Archive has disappeared.

The product archive is still available

KMA wrote:

Recommending a 1000 px width (max) is dated these days. Over 80 percent of displays in use today have a resolution that is higher than the once-web-design-standard 1024x768, which kept website design 980 - 1000 px wide for years. 

Not really, most workstations are still 1024px wide. Most users only have a 17" LCD max in many offices. It's a bit like having to support Internet Explorer 7. Sadly most companies still only support Internet Explorer and, sadly, v7. Indeed, BT, would you believe it, only allow Internet Explorer 6 for their remote workers and you can't install your own software on your laptop.

1000px is generally the norm. Maybe "dated" but sadly many businesses do not upgrade as quickly as home users and most browsing is still done during the day, from work.

Anyway, they're not going to re-size it now, so I guess it's fairly irrelevant!

The new B&O website has a semi-fluid layout, and it perfectly adapts itself when viewed at 1000px. The photos are cropped on the side but the text is re-laid out.

I noticed that Peter picked up a typo!  Good job!   I found this a bit odd too.  (I used to work as a proofreader):

Since 1925, Bang & Olufsen has experienced in the art of sound transmission

It's a bit irrelevant what the monitor size (or more correctly, screen resolution) is. Mine is 1920x1080 now, but I never use the browser maximized to the entire screen. Despite what the website designers would like, most of us aren't visiting a site to get some "experience", we want to see pictures of products and find information on them - the more capable users might even know how to keep another information window / program open on the side at the same time... Also, you can't ignore mobile users any more, and no, they don't need or want a separate mobile version, if the general layout fits.

A good part of modern web sites are laid out to fit a 960 px wide grid, meaning that they will fit nicely on a 1024 wide display including the browser window decorations - the new site seems to flow nicely above that, but I guess those stuck with 1024 or less will be burdened with a horizontal scroll bar. Not sure if it's worth it for a couple dozen of pixels.

I like the general feel of the new site. Most stuff is awfully large though, and often I keep wondering where the actual information is, because it is not always obvious that you need to / can scroll down (perhaps an unfortunate coincidence with my vertical window size).

Good as a visual experience - certainly better than the old site - but it seems harder to find facts. Seems like they tested the new visual style on the BV10 site (and the short form brochure I got a while ago), and I like the more cozy feel in the setups. The old clinical interiors were getting to look a bit 00's and lifeless to me...

Not sure how to describe it but everything just seems so big! - I kept feeling I somehow wanted to sit further away from the screen! It also seemed to require a lot of scrolling.

Maybe it'll seem to become less "in yer face" with more familiarity.

It tries to connect to archive from "Search", but never gets there...

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hfat wrote:

The Product-Archive has disappeared.

The product archive is still available

hfat wrote:

PhilLondon wrote:

hfat wrote:

The Product-Archive has disappeared.

The product archive is still available link.

www.bang-olufsen.com/product-archive has disappeared, where discontinued products were displayed.

hfat

They should really keep it on bang-olufsen, it is so fun to read and a very good guide for us owners. I very often go there to download pdfs and learn about new things. 

Now I like the design better than yesterday, it is better when the server works as it seems to do today =) And they have been adjusting some spelling misstakes. "Dull 5.1 surround" on the V1 page was the funniest one :).