An Overview of the New HubPages Features and Redesign
88- Ryan Hupfer
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As jimmythejock was quick to pick up on a few days ago (man, he's good!), we have been working hard on coming up with a new overall look and feel for HubPages and in the process we've also added a few cool, new features that we think you'll all really like. We'll be launching this new redesign sometime later this week and if any of you have some thoughts or comments on what's to come, we'd love to get the feedback.
I'm going to post a few screenshots from some of the new pages below so that you can get an idea of what everything will look like and what new features we've added. I've also recorded a video screencast where I explain some of these new features and I've posted it over here in our blog.
New Home Login Page (while signed in)
We've changed up the new home login that you see when you first sign into you account. You'll see that the information such as your Hubtivity is moved around a bit and there is also a new section for the blog entries and Q&A requests.
New Profile Page
The new profile page now features a little more on your description and allows you to add some more text about who you are and what all you're into writing about, which is a very important thing to tell your fellow Hubbers. Also, your visitors now have some cool, new ways to move through your Hubs.
New Search Options
The new search is much, much more feature-rich than it ever was and it now allows you to search all across HubPages or just specifically within certain sections, such as Hubs, Forums, Images and Videos.
New Category Pages
If you haven't categorized your Hubs yet, now's the time to do it because we're officially rolling out specific pages that showcase the best Hubbers and the best Hubs that are in each category.
New Forums Design
The forums have gone through a redesign and now display the most active topics throughout all of the forums as well as each of the overall forum sections that you're used to seeing. Also, within each specific forum section there are leader boards that display which Hubbers have been the most active.
Easy Edit Buttons
One of the new features that has gotten some great feedback is the addition of the quick edit buttons in your My Account screen. These buttons allow you to edit your Hubs without having to view them first. This should be a real time saver for all of you rockstar Hubbers out there (you know who you are).
Question and Answer Section (formerly Requests)
The old Requests section is now labeled Q&A for Question and Answer and although it looks differently, it still works the exact same way that it always has.
96- Dame Scribe
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I love how the category page is going to look! but are the other pages going to be that LONG?
that's lots scrolling 
lol
92- BristolBoy
- 513 posts
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- Hubs: 34
- Followers: 335
Looks interesting. Is this the reason for the problems over the last few days?
100- Dolores Monet
- 254 posts
- Joined: 11 months ago
- Hubs: 95
- Followers: 499
Just when I finally figured out how hubpages work. Almost. Well, the catagory change looks interesting, I'm going to check on my catagories right away.
93- Eric Graudins
- 1558 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 15
- Followers: 705
A list of the most active hubbers on the forums. Hmm. That will be interesting - and is sure to some people a fright!
I'm looking forward to seeing the new features. They look great. Well done HP.
94- AEvans
- 3989 posts
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- Followers: 1187
Interesting, change is always good most active hubbers now that is a bit scary, it should be exciting and I am certain that as it comes up there will be a few hiccups, but nothing none of us cannot overcome.
Brilliant work team. Love the changes.
77- shinujohn2008
- 1322 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
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- Followers: 2398
I am waiting to go through the new Hubpages and only thing i hope is that all pages loads faster like before. (New features should not make hub page heavy. Most adsense ads appear only after the page loads completely )
Thanks for adding the Easy Edit Buttons as it is very useful.
The only doubt i have is why the Hubs are not wider
In every page in this Site, there is lot of space wasted on the right hand side. At least a vertical column is wasted near to the scroll bar. If ads are placed in that space it would get more attraction. In the main topics page also space is left blank on right side. If some text is placed in this space , it would have shortened the length of a page. (Example : In Topics page there are two columns , if there are 3 columns then the length of the page will be less, likewise)
Is there any special reason why the pages are not wider or that space is left blank. I always wanted to ask this question.
79- Edwin Clark
- 59 posts
- Joined: 17 months ago
- Hubs: 45
- Followers: 57
shinujohn2008 wrote:
I am waiting to go through the new Hubpages and only thing i hope is that all pages loads faster like before. (New features should not make hub page heavy. Most adsense ads appear only after the page loads completely )
Thanks for adding the Easy Edit Buttons as it is very useful.
The only doubt i have is why the Hubs are not wider
In every page in this Site, there is lot of space wasted on the right hand side. At least a vertical column is wasted near to the scroll bar. If ads are placed in that space it would get more attraction. In the main topics page also space is left blank on right side. If some text is placed in this space , it would have shortened the length of a page. (Example : In Topics page there are two columns , if there are 3 columns then the length of the page will be less, likewise)
Is there any special reason why the pages are not wider or that space is left blank. I always wanted to ask this question.I think it's because long text on a computer screen can be quite difficult to read.
Text on a computer screen is much easier to read when the line doesn't exceed 80 to 100 characters. Plus you can also scan the text easier if you don't have the time to read a hub.
84- pauldeeds
- 1843 posts
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- Joined: 3 years ago
- Hubs: 1
- Followers: 376
Edwin Clark wrote:
I think it's because long text on a computer screen can be quite difficult to read.
Text on a computer screen is much easier to read when the line doesn't exceed 80 to 100 characters. Plus you can also scan the text easier if you don't have the time to read a hub.That's the reason we settled on 520px about 3 years ago. If you look at most well designed article sites (newspapers, blogs, etc), the width of their main column is almost universally between 500 and 600 pixels. The other issue, is that changing widths now could easily mess up carefully chosen formatting on existing hubs, especially those with elements in the right column and those designed to accommodate our long standing algorithm for placing ads within the content.
This doesn't mean we won't ever widen the content area a bit, but to do it right would be a major undertaking in of itself -- and not something we wanted to attempt this go around (we had enough to do!).- 77
- shinujohn2008
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pauldeeds wrote:
That's the reason we settled on 520px about 3 years ago. If you look at most well designed article sites (newspapers, blogs, etc), the width of their main column is almost universally between 500 and 600 pixels. The other issue, is that changing widths now could easily mess up carefully chosen formatting on existing hubs, especially those with elements in the right column and those designed to accommodate our long standing algorithm for placing ads within the content.Thanks for explaining the real reasons.
Thanks in Advance for the upcoming Redesigned Site and for everything Hub Pages Team has done for its users. HubPages Team have really worked hard Day and Night to make this site look really great with its New Looks and Categories. And i am 101% sure that this is the best Adsense Revenue Sharing Website in the whole internet. I am looking forward to all the changes. Just hope that hubpages loads fast as usual and doesn't slow down after this make over.
91- 2patricias
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I have put our Hubs into catagories, but am not sure that I have been consistent. Will it be possible to move Hubs between catagories?
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- Ryan Hupfer
- 1348 posts
- Joined: 17 months ago
- Hubs: 49
- Followers: 709
Dame Scribe wrote:
I love how the category page is going to look! but are the other pages going to be that LONG?
that's lots scrolling lolI think they just look long -- I pulled the full page screenshots, so it's a little misleading I think.
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- Ryan Hupfer
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AEvans wrote:
Interesting, change is always good most active hubbers now that is a bit scary, it should be exciting and I am certain that as it comes up there will be a few hiccups, but nothing none of us cannot overcome.
Now that's the attitude that I like to hear!
I think that the changes won't be so dramatic that you'll feel overwhelmed -- most of them are just design changes, but as you see we did add a few cool, new features while we were at it. Hopefully it will make things easier, not more confusing. But, you all can be the judges of that. - 88
- Ryan Hupfer
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- Joined: 17 months ago
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- Followers: 709
2patricias wrote:
I have put our Hubs into catagories, but am not sure that I have been consistent. Will it be possible to move Hubs between catagories?
Yeah, you will be able to change your categories for your Hubs at any time -- just go to your My Categories Page and you'll be able to edit them.
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- Ryan Hupfer
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spuds wrote:
Brilliant work team. Love the changes.
Thanks, Spuds!
Fantastic. A Bottle of Beer from me to Ryan. Cheers !
99- Whitney05
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I'm not sure I like the new look. We will see I guess... :-/
The search feature looks interesting. But, I don't think I'm a fan of the overall look from what I've seen... I do like how the share it buttons are now more visible, but other than that I'm glad to see not much changed with the hub layout. Will is be centered now? Or still left aligned?
"Q&A" makes me think of a FAQ page. That would be my first thought if I had never seen the video.
Oh an love that you guys are finally adding the 'edit' button to the account page. I remember it was requesting a LONG time ago and we were told no, and it was brought up again fairly recently. That'll definitely be appreciated.
Ooo... And I don't like how we had to shorten out profile page description for the current layout just a few months back, and now we can have the longer profiles again with the upcoming layout. Makes me wish I had known because I wouldn't have shortened it, if I'd known we were eventually going to have the extra space for more text.
Sorry for so many complaints... :-/Whitney05 wrote:
Will is be centered now? Or still left aligned?
It will be centered.
Whitney05 wrote:
And I don't like how we had to shorten out profile page description for the current layout just a few months back, and now we can have the longer profiles again with the upcoming layout.
You didn't *have to* shorten your profile text. But I see your point. You can blame me for this. Sorry! We would have told you that we were going to eventually change it to better accommodate longer text, but we didn't exactly have it all planned out at the time.
Whitney05 wrote:
Sorry for so many complaints... :-/
I suspect that you will like it (or at least hate it less) once you actually experience it. But feel free to continue giving us feedback, positive or negative. We can take it.
