Hey, check out the fancy new threads we’re sporting! Every kdrama Cinderella gets a shiny new makeover, and dramabeans was feeling left out. So we took her for a spin at the website-makeover spa and salon, and this is how she came out!
We worked really hard on this redesign (as in, directed people much more talented than us), and hope you love it as much as we do! Consider it an early Christmas gift. We hear Santa’s been ’round these parts lately.
Take a leisurely tour and reacquaint yourself with where things are, and thanks for your patience during the switchover!
A moment of silence, and one last look at dramabeans’ old outfit. We wore you to prom, to midnight shows of cult classics, and through many breakups. Fare thee well, old friend.
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Love the new look~!!! <3
Wii..Love the new look(^.^)v
cool. Wonderful
Noooooooooooooooooo.. i want my Arial back. huhuhu.. i want the classic dramabeans. With some additional colors and moving stuff, this would already look like allkpop.. huhuhu…
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I miss the simplicity of the old one…
This was such a nice surprise
I am loving everything about the new design from the layout to the color choices.
Totally worth the change!
I liked the old one better
like many other comments this looks like a kpop style, the old one was more individualistic………sorry I know you must have gone thru a lot of trouble to set this one up will just try to get used to it!!
I said before that I like the new design, based just on the aesthetics. I just liked the new layout, the neatness, the new font, and the sparkling new colours. To me the design communicates the right balance of fun (bright yellows!) and seriousness (neat & organized).
And having spent a bit more time round the site, I have to add that I also like the more substantial changes made. To me Dramabeans is not about the eye-smacking pictures. The thing that sets DB apart (and leaves the competition in the dust) is the amazing regularity and timeliness of posts, and the excellent editing and writing. So I really love how the homepage showcases more of the quantity of your quality posts. Congratulations on communicating to your designers so well what you are about, and “well done” to the designers for getting it so right!
Finally, I have to say, I find it so hilarious that so many people only now notice that you have a “currently airing” section! Just goes to show that sometimes you just have to change for change’s sake so that people pay more attention!
But I really think this change is for the better. Really. Super!
I know, right? That section’s been there for ages! I’m getting a huge kick out of how people are complaining about some things that were TOTALLY THERE in the previous design, lol! Or lamenting the death of things that are not dead. Haha.
Thank you for getting what we’re about. We did try our best, and we’re thrilled with the design.
i was surprised seeing the different look. I thought i was lost or something. This is what happened when you did not read for a day =). Anyway, i’m beginning to like it, not there yet but i’m pretty sure i’ll get use to it =)
I’m afraid I will stop using the site bc of the change. I don’t like how on the screen now there are 3 topics at a time I can see instead of just one, like on the old site. I can’t focus on one thing at a time and I find myself glancing at the headlines instead of reading the content of each topic. Too many pretty pictures that take away from the reading material. I’ve been on the site for 20 min. and I don’t remember anything special except that new guy episode is up. I guess I’ll just come here for the recaps now *sigh*…..& dramabeans I’m soo sorry for feeling this way but I can’t help it.
One more thing that caught my attention, not sure if it was mentioned before. On every picture now there’s writings such as Celebrity News or Recaps ect. maybe its only me, but why would the readers care? Unless you are trying to make it easier for us to choose and select what we want to read…again *sigh*
Those are the categories. They were marked on the old design, too.
Sorry to lose you as a reader! If you reconsider, you know where we are.
Awww JB thnx for responding back to my concerns!!
Actually I think I spoke out of initial shock to my (your) beloved old site, I am getting used to it and it does not seem as bad as I made out to be on my previous posts!!! < 3
Call me old fashion, but i prefer the old one. This new page looks like almost all the others that I visit. I remember just recently commenting to myself, the best layout is “dramabeans.”
The photos are quite big, its easy to navigate, it does not look “squeezed” like most, etc. Now, its all gone, boo hoo hoo hoo!!!!
Its like when I first discovered “allkpop” the lay out was similar with the former “dramabeans.” Since then they have changed layout three times and i still like the “original” (circa 2005 so probably its not the original). I remember saying to myself then, I am so glad dramabeans does not change its layout, like others.
Geez this sure will take time for me to adjust. boo hoo hoo hoo!!!!.
WOW!!! This is great! Thank you
I had to do a double-take when I dropped in today! Much has changed since I last came here…a couple of weeks ago.
The new design looks great. Let’s just say, dramabeans is only getting better and better, in every way possible. ^-^
The comments look better in normal, instead of bold, fonts.
Thanks for making that change.