While I’m at it I’ll second the comment asking you to please not lock the header into a frame at the top. That effectively shortens my screen. I want to scroll that stuff off and fill the window with content.

I think it’s a mistake to remove the BP tab at the top of the screen. I’ll bet most people don’t know they can click on the logo to get back to the home page. People expect all the tabs to stay put at the top of the screen when one is clicked. All you need is something to indicate which tab the user is currently viewing.

I like all the video being hidden in its own tab. When I view the site from my iPhone video boxes take lots of space and time to load. Generally, I just want to look at the articles when on the road and save video for when I get back home.

Changing “cafe” to “think tank” is a good idea. New users will be less confused by that terminology.

You should have a permanent ad (and occasional free samples) for your paid services on the home page. I keep meaning to look into them but they’re not in my face enough, so I haven’t bothered yet (and I’ve been a reader for 4-5 years). You provide a great free service here. I don’t think many of us will complain if you promote your paid services a little harder. Just don’t plaster the home page with brokerage ads and other junk from doubleclick. I’ll use an ad blocker to filter that right out (just like I do at realMoney.com). I’ll put up with ads that come directly from your site because I feel like I owe it to you. You’ll make more money selling me a subscription to something valuable than by maybe getting me to click through once or twice a year. For instance, there’s nothing wrong with telling us, “XYZ was up 15% today! If you used Fusion IQ you’d know that because we recommended it last week. Click here to learn more.”

Hope this helps. Thanks for all the great content.

Lost input was along these lines…
Search capability is prime.
The Calendar is a cumbersome affordance as one (this one, at least) usually can’t even remember the approximate post date and spends too much time clicking first one date and then another.
MUCH prefer the ability to access a scrollable reverse chronology to scan rapidly for the desired post title/topic.
When Seeking Alpha re-designed their site, there was so much negative feedback on tabbing by topic/subject area that they added back an alternate view option for a scrollable reverse chronology (e.g., ” I’m finding it disconcerting how difficult it is to find articles once they get scrolled off of the front page”) Might be worth reviewing the feedback (http://tinyurl.com/9dt8g5) David Jackson received during that process.
One highly valued Seeking Alpha affordance is their Comment Stream link next to each commenter’s handle that takes me to all posts by that commenter. Would love to be able to click on a link next to leftback, Karen, KJ, AT et al and immediately be able to scroll through their gem’s of insight to find just the one I want to read again or quote.

space hijacking

Please, please, please do not do this.

That would make the top third of my browser active area locked with information that does not change as I scroll or even from visit to visit.

As to frames, PIE looks like it works ok with some old navigational frames navigational frame on the left, but gives a very narrow content frame. Example,

http://www.colonialcountryclubno.com

Others don’t work as well, e.g. http://www.msdn.com/library/ which uses divs. Don’t know if it detects I’m using a mobile browser and changes the page or it just doesn’t work right, but it just loses the left navigation frame entirely.

I was just trying to find a site with a top static top frame and scrolling bottom frame to see how it works, but haven’t been able to find an example. If anyone has one, please post the url.

Speaking of mobile — on the G1, I’m having an odd issue where when I try tapping the Comments link for a story, sometimes it highlights the whole page and goes to Amazon while other times it goes to the Comments — I don’t know if this is site specific, wordpress specific or Android specific (I haven’t tried Opera on it yet). No complaints, really, perhaps just something to look into during refinement.

Also, as far as tabs, just a UI note to point out: it seems like you’re suggesting making the “active” tab float to the left while laying “inactive” transparent tabs to the right. From a UI point of view, I would think it more natural for tabs to maintain their positions at all times, active or inactive. Of course, I could be easily confused (it happens often).

Still love it,
Mike J

whatever the redesign, I think this is an important consideration..

or, for more fun, TBP could create a .mobi ‘twin’

LSS: wi-fi, wireless in general, is moving into, evermore, mobile apps: GPS, Autos, etc.

as a +, if TBP keeps its .com ‘lite’, it leaves more ‘bandwidth’ for BRIPTV..