That time has come again, and Shelfari is getting a new facelift. We launched a new design a few minutes ago and we're excited for you to try it out.
We spent a lot of time talking with our members, seeking to understand how they use the site and what appeared to be missing in their experience. In those conversations, we found a very passionate group of members who love Shelfari and regularly use its sharing and expression features. However, in those conversations we noticed that we could do a better job of serving users who simply want to see what is hot at this very moment. Those users want to know what are the most exciting books, members, authors, and groups on Shelfari, and give our members a place they could simply browse and discover. We responded to that request in this redesign.
Tim wrote a very detailed description of what has been updated, and I won’t duplicate that here. Do check it out to see all of the things that have changed. But let me share some of my personal highlights
You will notice right away that tucked up near the new wood grain header is a new top-level navigation. We took all of the personal sections from our last header and placed them neatly in the My Shelfari drop-down menu and on your home page. The new sections—Books, Authors, Members, and Groups—each have their own new discover sections.
The Books section has a new By Subject tab, where you can dive down into books by their genre. On each Subject page (such as Romance), you can see which reviewers are getting the most votes for review in that subject, top reviews for that subject, and the top books.
The Members section has a Just For You tab, where you can see members reading the same book as you, friends of friends, and members with similar shelves. Time to make some new friends.
The Groups section has updated leaderboards, showing what’s hot in our groups.
There is also a lot going on under the hood, which is really worthy of its own post. Suffice it to say that the CSS is completely new, the html is a lot lighter, the site loads a lot faster, and the development team feels refreshed at the opportunity to build on this new platform.
We hope you like it. Please send us your feedback and we’ll do our best to respond quickly.
Dave
I'm loving Shelfari. It gives my page a feeling of home. Thanks for this and the updates.
Posted by: Stephen Bess | June 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM
How come I haven't been able to login for the past few days?
It takes forever to login then it times out.
Fix it guys. Thanks.
Posted by: Angry Member | June 20, 2008 at 11:11 PM
It would be a great idea to give an option of:
Borrowed the book from the Library.
Along with
I own it
I read it etc. etc.
Posted by: Barbara Anne | June 21, 2008 at 02:58 PM
It would be a great idea to give an option of:
Borrowed the book from the Library.
Along with
I own it
I read it etc. etc.
Posted by: Barbara Anne | June 21, 2008 at 02:59 PM
I cannot use the site since the changes. I cannot add books, import books, or even send an email using the feedback form. Everything times out. From the comments here, it looks like this is my problem alone. Any hints on configuring my browser. I've tried using IE 7 and Firefox 2.0.0.14 with the same results. Nothing works. Any ideas would be helpful.
Posted by: nehark | June 22, 2008 at 12:44 PM
I just found your site and immediately fell in love. I love books more than anything and I was pleased to find a bunch of friends already on it. Can't wait to see where this goes!
Posted by: Jason Shen | June 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM
I was able to login after two weeks of boredom. Thanks to Amanda and the entire team!
SHELFARI ROCKS!
Posted by: Not An Angry Member Anymore | June 24, 2008 at 02:17 AM