Several months, options, arguments, studies and designers later, the all new IAB is finally on air. It’s taken us a lot of time and effort on what looks like a very simple job.
We conducted several studies with our traffic statistics to understand where our readers come from and what their screen and browser settings are. We also studied the heat map showing where our readers clicked and accordingly setup our navigation.
We figured that the spyshots and SRK’s renderings were among the popular sections and decided to give them dedicated space on the sidebar. We’re looking at many options at this point on what else we can show there. We have a video bar which will feature our videos regularly from now.
We also received complaints on important updates hiding and becoming untraceable with time as new ones occupied the front page. Hence we have given 4 slots on the top right of the blog where important posts from the recent past will appear. Additionally, we are setting up a “Popular” section on the front page that will show some of the important developments we have first hand account of like launches and press conferences. We plan to display titles of famous posts on the sidebar, we will work on this in the future.
We received flak from our readers for having placed the RSS subscription button in the bottom right of the page where no one could see it. We have moved both the email subscription as well as the RSS feed icon on top and the bottom of every post so that your friends visiting us for the first time will spot them almost immediately and keep track of us daily.
We have worked on optimizing the font and titles to be easier on the eye. We reduced vertical scrolling and got rid of the horizontal scroll. Tweet and Facebook Like buttons have also been provided under every post so that sharing content with your friends through these platforms is now very easy.
The comment section has received a thorough overhaul. Leaving your comments is easier and faster.
As many of you know we have two other websites – Indian Motos Blog – a motorcycle blog with news and opinion, and Steering News – a fruit salad that deals with anything that has a wheel. We believe displaying recent updates from those websites on IAB’s footer was important and gives readers variety.
We have taken more than a day to install this theme. We are working on making all the links work properly. We are also working on making the site appear without bugs on other browsers such as Chrome and older Internet Explorers. We will work tonight to fix all the errors.
We need your help!
We need you to tell us if there are any errors on this theme. We’d love to hear your feedback. If there is something that will make the site better, we’re all ears to it.
Thank you once again for visiting Indian Autos Blog. We endeavor to keep you up to date with developments on your favorite cars.
you should change the grey back color it dose not match the site.
I think the old one is better…
It gives us a feeling that it’s a blog…
But the latest one fails..:-(
somehow IAB has lost its sophisticated look that was present in the earlier layout. i prefer the old one over this.
Indianautosblog has been a favourite website for me. I would at least visit the website once in a day. The posts written are indeed unique and I can understand the hardwork behind it. The new look better but it could have been more interactive. Anyways looking forward to get best of the automotive information through this website.
Great Work. I have been following our website for almost a Couple of years and I was amazed to see this change today.
Its really excellent attractive and catchy..
Congrats once again and appreciate all your effort..
The new look is awesome, all the things are neatly placed. Blog area and even other articles have good wight-age with Indian Motos Blog and Steering News getting equal importance ( Design and layout vise ). Being an artist I feel that, the band where your Logo and Monogram is placed somehow does not gel with your overall theme. Rest everything is perfect. IAB Rocks……..
looks good but red font is in the face..may be blue would be better
Hello,
Please show the full post in RSS feeds – it defeats the purpose of subscribing to the feed if it only shows excerpts of posts, as that can be done by visiting the site itself.
@Sameer – Yes, we’ll get that fixed in no time. Thank you for the feedback.
its messy
Hi Shrawan,
Great to see IAB in new dress. The functionality of the theme is much better now also the contents placements is very good. Loved the branding…
Great year ahead.
Looks like you downgraded yourself……blog area is to small.
Shrawan, Congratulations! I knew that something was around the corner when the blog was put on the maintenance mode last night. The new layout looks nice, but the best part is “Indian Autos Blog by Shrawan Raja”.
Cheers!
@TAI/Vibhor- thanks man. Your support is crucial and valuable to me and my team
Welcome back!
The new layout is great!
Loved it.
Congrats!
Please give more lines of description.
The right side panel can take up little space than it is now.
Looks more like motorbeam.com
@madhav – yes, we will look into the description part. Thanks for the feedback.
HI, Its new wonderful website. I liked the way things are placed (Thanks for developers who have worked for it
). Only thing to be changed is the size of right columns video spyshots etc., Request you to make it small… I felt its hindering primefocus.
@Sudarshan – Yes, we will look into it. You are right, we need to make it smaller