Have just logged on to Ancestry & they have changed the format. I cannot find anything. I would normally open a tree,go to people & everything would be laid out in order. Not know,its a mess. (Or is it me just hot & bothered)
Matt
My avatar is my fathers father,name unknown.............................
Maggie,you are right it is a mess & I have sent some comments back to them today.
I also sent feedback a few weeks age regarding the colour scheme.I am partly colour blind and the choice of green print doesn't make it easy to see. (My wife told me it was green)
Matt
My avatar is my fathers father,name unknown.............................
I find it crazy to change things when clearly they work and looked okay.
Web designs have to be clean, clear. easy to read and not to jazzy with colour.
I picked out one of the reasons they give in their spiel i.e.easier to load but thats a programming thing and they should know how to have a good layout without overloading it with programming.
Surely they have people employed to test what works on the eye on computers and what appeals and what works.
To be honest its giving me an headache trying to work out stuff everything is so messy and all over the place re relationships on the profiles.
It's strange - some people can still access the old layout, but others have no option but to go with the new set-up.
I'm one of the latter and although I think the print is more attractive, I think it's disjointed and I can't find the equivalent of the old 'People With Hints' page.
Gwyn
Freya - a lovely, funny human-friendly disaster waiting to happen....
Ah yes, I see what you mean.
From a viewing perspective I think it looks better - has more of a Family Tree Maker format with the family view and a larger number of generations shown on an ancestor chart. Not sure how easy it is to use if you use Ancestry to build your tree.
Ah yes, I see what you mean.
From a viewing perspective I think it looks better - has more of a Family Tree Maker format with the family view and a larger number of generations shown on an ancestor chart. Not sure how easy it is to use if you use Ancestry to build your tree.
Well I have to disagree it looks like an explosion in a cake factory. Why would they want to emulate a FTM format? To be honest I don't think it does look like a FTM format, wells there's so many whose to choose.
And you could always see a larger number of generations shown on an ancestor chart without the new format.
If you were to send a link to someone to view your tree as it looks now they'd never get it. They'd give up I know I would.
Neither do I its made it a whole lot more difficult just to put some simple details on to share with others and have a quick look at stuff its so messy.
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