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NASA.gov Upgrades Now Online

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 20, 2015
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NASA.gov Upgrades Now Online

Welcome to the New NASA.gov
“Based on extensive user feedback and testing, we’ve modernized NASA.gov to work across all devices and screen sizes, eliminate visual clutter, and put the focus on the continuous flow of news updates, images and videos we know you’re looking for. We’ve simplified our image and video galleries to emphasize viewing and sharing the content, and organized that content around NASA’s areas of work, like the Journey to Mars and exploration of the Solar System and Beyond. And we’ve made the content more “discoverable,” by connecting features and images to related content through an “infinite scroll” of similar content and clickable topic labels that take you to pages with more related content.”
Keith’s note: Many people just type “nasa.gov” in their browser – like I do. Try that and see what happens – or click here: http://nasa.gov/. Some (but not all) browsers automatically add “www”.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

6 responses to “NASA.gov Upgrades Now Online”

  1. AstroInMI says:
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    The new design is improved. However, (not sure if you are finally rubbing off on me or not, Keith!) I’m perplexed as to why they need to have multiple mission pages for the same mission. For example, if you go to this new design, there’s a New Horizons page, but I can’t for the life of me figure where the link is to the mission site (I know the address, but I’m looking at this as someone who doesn’t.)

    Edit: OK, I found it. It was under Related Information.

    Perhaps a link on the left side saying “Official Mission Website” would be helpful?

  2. Colin Seftor says:
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    Good grief!

    The new pages may be very pretty, but they take FAR too long to load. It took 30 seconds or so to load the Earth page from the Topics menu on my phone.

    Plus, the home pages (both the main NASA page and the individual center ones) are now devoid of any meaningful content; you have to drill down far too deep to actually get any useful information.

    A triumph of style over substance. Way to dumb things down, NASA!

    • Michael Spencer says:
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      To be fair a graphics-heavy site is at a disadvantage, although the smart web standards people are working on ways to send appropriately-sized images to various devices.

      • Colin Seftor says:
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        So I’m sitting in my office, with a fast computer and a nice, fast internet connection, and the Earth page still takes about 15-20 seconds to load. This is simply unacceptable, graphics-intensive page or not.

  3. Michael Spencer says:
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    A great designer knows how to take things out. Anyone can clutter a page [witness the Goddard plan].

    These pages still have far too much stuff on them and no sensibility about how NASA as a whole is organized.

    Oh, wait…