Not a Fan of the New VCI Site
There was a big splash on the message boards last month about the redesign of VCI’s website, Gravy over at the Balcony thought it was great. Me, not so much. Looking at it from Gravy’s viewpoint it is a nice redesign with a bigger selection of genre’s. Where before you had three, Westerns, Serials, and the rest; it would have been a chore going through the catalog to find what you are looking for. Now you have a quicker method if you are looking for Science Fiction or Animation. For the overall film fan this is a true improvement.
But the one type of fan that has gotten screwed is the Serial fan. There isn’t a section of serials. If you want to find a serial you have to know what category it fits into, some are easy like Buck Rogers and Adventures of Red Ryder, obviously Science Fiction and Westerns, but the others seem to be put in arbitrarily, all of the Zorro titles are in Action/Adventure and Return of Chandu is in Mystery/Suspense. For someone looking for just a serial, you have to know exactly what you are looking for and where VCI decided the category that it fits.
I also haven’t been able to check out all of the catergories, my computer is a netbook and the site’s pages don’t fit, and there are no bars to scroll over to the left or right, so shorter words on their navigation are cut off and impossible for me to access. So for me the redesign is a big disappointment.
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