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Everyone's favorite Dictionary.com, gets a major facelift

dictionary.com — Just a major css facelift with a tableless design. Even better and faster than before. Check it out!

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  • EvanCarroll, on 10/12/2007, -30/+2http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spelin&x=0&y=0 look at the suggestion list, I really like this fashion props to dictionary.com, lets see the wikipedia alternative, wiktionary, play catch up. I really dislike wiktionary mispellings are two clicks away and the interface wo/ ads is more bloated than dictionary, observe the mispelling for 'spelin' on it, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Allpages/spelin
    • abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44"Everyone's favorite Dictionary.com"
      You mean there is more than one!?!
    • crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16"spelin" not found

      did you mean "stark bollock naked"?

      ---from wikipedia link above, last suggested word on the page
    • atozand1to10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25@snipehack: Adblock really works!
    • maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18lol, I havnt seen an add for YEARS
      get with the times, man
    • Tarmas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"A great new design, the same crappy ads."

      There's nothing great about the design at all. Not to say the site isn't a good resource, but hell, when I went to dictionary.com, I thought it was yet another fake website of some domain hunter.
    • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I love the piss colored thesaurus. Really makes me want to use the site.
    • ekstasis16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I agree with Tarmas, it looks like a link farm at first glance. Either way, every time a major site moves from tables to CSS, it makes me all giddy inside.
    • nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3define:smiley ads
  • EvanCarroll, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4ok digg you suck...

    Look at the suggestion list on dictionary.com
    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spelin&x=0&y=0

    Compaired to wiktionary's
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Allpages/spelin

    I really like this fashion props to dictionary.com.
    Lets see the wikipedia alternative, wiktionary, play catch up.

    I really dislike wiktionary misspellings being two clicks away from the suggestion list and the interface wo/ ads is more bloated than dictionary, observe the confusing landing page for the misspelling for 'spelin' on it, : http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=spelin&go=Go
  • treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4props to happycog for this: http://www.happycog.com/
  • bugninja, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3This would make the homepage if the title were:

    Dictionary.com design goes Web 2.0
    But you beat me to the URL.
  • mikev, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2its so web 2.0!!
  • DJgreenLava, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33It looks almost like a parked add site w/ a css search bar at the top. Dugg none-the-less.
    • lethalpotato, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i thought the same thing when i first saw it
    • lechatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw it.
    • iamdw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5agreed. especially since it forwards to the reference.com domain. Did this happen before? i can't remember.

      Honestly, if i stumbled upon this with say, a good search for dictionary, i would most likely close the window/tab thinking the site is not legit.
    • incubusnb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't want to call it poorly designed, but ya, it does look far too much like a parked domain to me as well. I almost closed the window when it loaded thinking someone linked to the wrong place but noticed at the last moment that it actually is the site.

      on the plus it is a whole lot faster and easier to navigate once you get passed the parked look
    • estvir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's redirected for quite awhile now, like > 6 months or so.

      Looks fine to me, it's functional.
    • frogpelt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yes it did forward to the reference.com domain bfore.
  • Cannon13, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Is it a social network? No.
    Does it have interactivity like comments and tags? No.

    So, explain how it's "Web 2.0". I guess it must be those rounded tabs, right?
    Idiots.
    • Dested, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1The use of tableless forms and full css scripting, with a little javascript most definitely not written by the creator of the website. I'd say its as web2.0 as google.
    • actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@Cannon13

      Go to Dictionary.com and search for "humor". Har-har.

      :)
    • Nanobe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@Dested: How is a tableless layout like Google, the king of table layouts?
    • mporcheron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1neither the synopsis or the title says it is web 2.0 so where the hell did you come up with that?
  • brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6cool.. but theres still too many ads :(
  • EV1L, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Web 2.0 design
    Web 1.0 technology

    Hate the pop ups
  • namtellum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Anyone else think it looks like a giant ad?
  • sdubois92, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Very Web 2.0 I dont use it tho. OS X has a built in dictionary widget
  • aaryn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Web 2.0 indeed
  • mooseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I noticed it earlier by pure chance. It looks a lot nicer. Check out the bookmarklet in firefox by typing "dict word" and it takes you right to the definition. Very handy.
  • Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks quite nice, and hats off to the nice idea of using a 250x100 search button GIF and scaling it waaaaaay down so it adjusts nicely with the text... Except Firefox does nearest-neighbor filtering when scaling images and it looks like utter *****. Are there any browsers that actually do nice interpolation when scaling graphics?
  • MysteryFCM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yep, very err, good face lift ...

    http://temerc.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2624
  • MysteryFCM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0hehe nope ;)

    The old design looked fine in AB, but the new one doesn't (and as an FYI, it looks no better in Orca (uses the Gecko engine) or IE itself on my system either).

    /edit

    Dammit, forgot to click the correct reply link :o
  • bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I don't really like the site itself, but the design isn't too bad.
  • easycheez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was on it earlier today becuase I had a definition assignment for my American History course and I hit to search for an entry and blam, the header changed. I thought I was hallucinating. Props to dictionary.com, not a moment of downtime.
  • dbxz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4ugh stop saying web 2.0 i dont see how it is at all... just cause it doesnt use tables doesnt make it web 2.0 in my books.

    and its so damn ugly! the search button is soo poorly done!
  • Wolfman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I've never understood why everyone loves Dictionary.com so much.... It 'looked' like utter crap, and still does, just with a so called stylish header. There are much more convenient, and less intrusive services out there. education.yahoo.com for one, simple, precise, non-intrusive. "Define: word" in Google for another, quickest way out there(especially if your browser has a google search box, or URL-box shortcut).

    I love my Opera "g define: word"
  • Neoanarchist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Looks nice as hell and it's about ***** time.
  • scottylist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I prefer going to my Google toolbar and entering "define word".
  • Rojo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1looks 1 million times better
  • diggn_it, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I liked the old one better. Nowthe search bar is in the corner as opposed to center, and it looks like one of those site you end up on when you type in a wrong url. My design would be just a giant search bar with a thesaurus link under it. Then it would load up your definition and the search bar would shrink as necessary. Too bad I dont know how to build it :(
  • matatan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2www.onelook.com works as a handy online dictionary metasearch. But it is so UGLY.
  • Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No more 1999 style
  • FlyboyP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use dictionary.com via the Define Word extension in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/396/
  • Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I use Wiktionary for all my word definin' needs.
  • Araxen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I rarely if ever use dictionary.com. I just Google as my dictionary. It's alot better at it!
  • MrZaiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks like a bad search page now with that big ad banner right in the center
  • da233, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0About time.
    • Qoogirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've used this site twice in about six years. It was too ugly to look at. It's about time, I agree!
  • Goeran1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3My preferred dictionary is answers.com / 1click answers. http://www.answers.com/
    • heavyd14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I love answers.com just for the translations.
  • SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Much better. And yes, about time.
  • SoundScape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It looks even worse than before.

    If you're going to do a redesign, shouldn't you at least make it worthwhile?
  • brokencity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1IMO, the site is better than it used to be, but still not that great.
  • chromium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Everyone's favorite"?
    Marked as inaccurate, I prefer http://www.thefreedictionary.com it's not full of ads and is very Web 2.0
    • theonesteve, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I agree about http://www.thefreedictionary.com, but modded you down for marking the submission as inaccurate because of your personal preferences. thefreedictionary.com doesn't have all the crap ads that dictionary.com likes to push out. And yes, I have ad-blocking enabled, but I'd rather go to a site that doesn't force them on you in the first place.
  • manalo8686, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0chromium
    yes! Very few people out there who wouldn't have used dictionary.com at some stage.
    As for the design it's better, but it's not all that exciting, how bout some Ajax Dictionary.com people
  • helike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Didn't anyone notice it's a Zeldman? For shame nerds. For shame.
  • xorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The new design looks very smooth and nice. Defininitely makes using dictionary.com a lot more "pleasing" :)
  • samdu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Actually, my online dictionary of choice is http://www.w-m.com Webster.
  • nekitip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nothing special, but still MUCH better than the earlier crappy design. Too bad the ads are still there (and so "old-school").
  • dubbin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not my favoUrite. Give me the OED any day, it's Zed is more comprehensive than dictionary.com's entire A to Zee.
  • RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
  • samtajain79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1answer com is batter then this
    http://www.articles-hub.com
  • poshsuicide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6now if only they'd improve the quality of their definitions.
  • nocountries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2english2american.com

    helps me on here sometimes!
  • nach0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gah, it doesn't automatically focus on the input box anymore. :(
  • subESC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's already been said 10,000 times, but the site definitely looks like I went to a url that doesn't exist.
    Terrible font choice, terrible layout, and horrible ad placement (Although any ad placement is bad, I suppose).
    I don't see how this version of the site could last for long and, truthfully, I don't really see what was wrong with the old version; it was simple.
  • SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1CSS design *looks* nice but doesn't *work* any better.
  • vhtrading, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been using Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus site for years. It's far better than dictionary.com; it has more features, doesn't require you to sign up for an account to listen to the audio pronunciations of words like dictionary.com does, has a shorter URL (m-w.com) for when you don't have it bookmarked, and has a handy search engine add-on for Firefox. No Digg.
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