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Hi,

I like the old control panel more than the new one. Things are written in bigger fonts, easier to read, easier to find things, more breathing room.

The new one is less accessible with its dropdown menus, written in small letters. I find it more tiring to use.

Some comments on the recent changes:

- The new icon for Auction Lock is identical to the icon for Registry Lock. This requires the user to hover the mouse over the lock icon on each and every domain and wait for the tooltip to appear in order to identify what kind of lock it is and detect which domains have automatically transitioned from Auction Lock to Registry Lock. It would be better to use a distinct icon for Auction Lock to facilitate fast visual scanning.

- The right-side Info panel should be collapsible or removable to allow more width for the tables, and also to hide that private information from view. "Last Singin:" is a typo.

- The new striped table layout seems to consume more vertical space. The padding could perhaps be reduced without sacrificing readability. The presence of the right-side Info panel sometimes forces content to word-wrap within cells and consume an extra text (or icon) line, exacerbating the problem.

- Auction Lock status is still apparently not shown on the domain edit page. It would be better to have all the basic info about the domain available in one place.


 [This post has been edited by nscd on Oct 3, 2012 1:54pm.]


 [This post has been edited by nscd on Oct 4, 2012 12:24pm.]

All excellent suggestions, thank you.  These will be forwarded to the design team immediately.

I generally like the new look, especially since it is more compact.

Recently, the "auction locked" indicator disappeared from the domain list. This makes it impossible to quickly spot when any domains have changed status. It seems "auction locked" is also not on the domain edit page, perhaps making the old domain list the only place it can be found.

Also "for sale", is now buried under the "Quick Info" popup, making it hard to scan for that status.

Perhaps it would be better to dedicate Quick Info to triggering actions & lookups, and use icons or abbreviations to represent the full set of statuses. Put each in its own column to make it easy to scan a list quickly.


 [This post has been edited by nscd on Sep 4, 2012 3:01pm.]

I like one thing about the new control pannel.

On the Webhosting, it now shows red when we are close to the need to renew. Just like it has always done with domain name.

Not fussy on font, as long as it works and has color-highlighted-alerts as I have stated.

Thanks for your feedback!  We'll be making some more changes so we appreciate your thoughts.