New Website Look for FlightAware on 10th Anniversary

From the looks of the new design, I'm guessing that nobody at Flightaware has trouble seeing certain shades of blue. Incidentally, orange letters on the current shade of blue background play havoc on those who are near-sighted or presbyopic.

Daniel, if now you also fixed the outside links so they open on a separate browser tab instead of leading us away from F/A.

On first glance I am not thrilled with this but maybe I will get used to it. I liked having the separate sections - it made it easier to get where I wanted to go, especially the left side bar.

Sometimes I wonder if companies change things up just to change things, not for any useful purpose other than the site designers needs something to do.

My only concern is format. For us older folks with cataracts your color contrasts on the new website leave a lot to be desired. Deep red against navy is difficult plus some of the lettering needs to be enlarged or made bolder.

Have to say this does not look like step forward. The new colours look like a flash back to an old yahoo website. Please go back to the clean white page look you had earlier.

Fonts all around are much to thin to easily read. Need to be bolder.

What happened to the opening screen national map that could be enlarged to full screen? I used that a lot to gen an overview of local or national conditions. Can the small map in the right be enlarged in the same way?

You guys ever hear the old saying, "if it aint broke don't fix it"?

I see the comment section is only meant for people that like the change since some are going through and giving thumbs down to the ones that don't like it. Maybe the thumbs downs are from the designers looking out for their wallet. Still don't like it. Now someone can come along and say, "If you don't like it, don't use it and don't come back."

I love the new design.

comment from an artist (i hope this thread hasn't closed): orange and blue are complementary colours, so they look really nice together in nature and paintings but bounce off each other when put close together in graphics. just saying :-)

This actually looks like a website from this decade! :) Great job guys!

I notice that the user id's are layered/overlapping

Looks good, and some new features it would appear... Great Job Flight Aware and happy 10th anniversary.

Happy Anniversary Flightaware !! Love the pictures.Keep up the great work.

Nice anniversary present. It's different from what I seen for the last 4 years. Like Preacher1, I'm not in favor of change for change sake alone. It does look good, and we'll get used to it. I like that chat appears in the heading or tracking, commercial, about, and contact tabs- much easier to get to. Doesn't show or ADS-B, photos, squawks, discussions. Those are more focused than general population usage and can understand management decision to opt out of them there. Adding them to those tabs would only increase chat traffic and reduce the signal-to-noise level. (I have used it from discussions to alert FA staff of spammers in discussions)

After watching FA staff responsiveness during the intro and rollout of flightfeeder and piaware which (was excellent BTW), it's nice to see how well the new look pop up so well.

Congrats and happy anniversary from another 'old luddite'

The squawk title font on the home page looks weird. The bottom of lower case letter O fades away on my computer. Otherwise, I really like the new design!

Morning! Change is good. Keeps the fuel flowing and gear working. Good for the organic computer too. I like the update.

congratulations!!!! great new site!!!!

Daniel, you might have given a heads up, (maybe you did) to the old luddites in the crowd who relish change like a visit with the AME. O.K. I'll get used to it, so do I have to like it? LOL

I don't like it. With the boxes on the left, I was able to just plug in a new flight number for the same airline and get it right now. Now I have to start all over. I hate it when companies have web designers that have to change a web page just to justify their wages.

TEN YEARS??!!! Wow. Congratulations on staying the course when in this technical world, sites have a tendency to be there one moment and gone the next. I had gotten so used to seeing you show up in my e-mail list that I lost track of how long you have been providing me with great info. Keep up the good work.

This is better? Seriously guys....re-think this. OK?

Flightaware, one change you could have make was improve the accuracy of aircraft types. Still there are alot of gaps in the photo section to be fixed!

Ten years of excellence, and from the great new look of your site, it seems that there's more to come. Congratulations to the FlightAware team! You're flying high.

looks like some kid got a hold of it!!!!!!!!!!!

Hate the new design. Why fix something that's not broke?

I can't get the "New Look" to work with Firefox (latest version = 36.0.4). Some of the buttons including Login are dead. The field for entering a flight# or tail# in the banner at the top of the page is completely missing. When I select a flight the track graphic doesn't display.

Nice. I can no edit or delet posts!

SH

FYI I just received the third copy of your newsletter this morning, never seen that before. Am an old fellow, always resistant to change, initially had some problems navigating around but am sure it will be better over time, better contrast on the home page might help though

Flightaware is definitely one of my favorite websites. I have no constructive feedback at the moment. I'll test drive and come back to the comment section. I did notice that I didn't receive the weekly newsletter email yesterday (3/20). I was wondering if the launch of the new website had anything to do with that.

Regardless of whether you like it or not, it has been out here for 3-4 days now, and there are some current comments from this morning, as well as I had notifications this morning and yesterday from some posts a week back. To me, that says something about FA readers.

Although I had commented on it several times, several times also, like this morning, I have received and alert Email notification and thee was no change, no new comment on here. Glitch??????? 102 comments plus this one at present time

Can you guys figure out a way to avoid all the duplicate squwrks on the forum? Take today's Lufthansa crash as an example. I looked for other reports of this event. They didn't show up until after I posted.
Must be alot of extra work in your cockpit to keep under control.

LX1499

the best, I like

Wow! Looks really good, and I cannot wait to actually figure out how I will make it work for me. Cheers from here...

Like It !!

I like it....good job and happy anniversary FlightAware!

awsome

Big downgrade unfortunately. On mobile clicking from email is not mobile friendly and worse not touch screen friendly with menus that click on contract rather than just drop down. Colours clash. Font sizes often challenging such as reply links under a post. Now requires a wide screen to get to menu features. With so many different devices and screens this is poorly thought out. You should have used a designer to design this and a responsive capable developer. Blue on blue and dark orange on blue and layers misaligning. Do I care about the time on your server. Some of these problems may have existed before but if you want to revisit the site design then better put done thought in and possibly get early feedback. Great site for content as always just not thought out on this step.

First couple times I used it I wasn't too happy with it but after a while I've really enjoy using the new WEB site. It works great with my Android phone. It's a very well thought out change. Way to goes FlightAware. What is next for us? Can't wait to see what you do.

I like it!

The colors compliment, but I agree it can be hard to read. What used to be available on the home page is now buried 2-3 pages back. For example, to check the traffic at your favorite airport. You used to be able to enter it on the left side. Enter and click. Now you have to mouse over "Live Flight Tracking", drop down to "Browse by airport", click, enter airport code, click on submit. From 2 steps to 5. Mot good.

So far it is not too bad once a person gets used to it. The only complaint I have so far is on the home page. The title of each squawk would be easier to focus on quickly if the font was bolder and darker in color. It takes longer to read and comprehend if you have to concentrate longer to read when the letters are so thin and light in color.

Great work by the website flight crew!

Thanks for the improvements. They are an absolute joy.

Some changes in life are good and some are bad but I think you did an excellent job with the new release.
Thanks

Love the new layout - much cleaner. Keep up the great work!

Looking good.

....Instead of the orange.

Do not like your "upgraded" site. Please revert back.

When I click on Discussions I get a SQL error. Anybody else get this? Anyone know how to solve this?