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"Business social network LinkedIn, fresh off its milestone of 50+ million users, is now getting a makeover, and it definitely changes the way you use the social media website.\nIn a detailed blog post, the company announced that it has begun a limited test of its new design.  It features a newer, longer top-level navigation bar, the removal of the dreaded left-hand navigation bar, and a cleaner overall look.\nScreenshots\nThe best way to describe the new layout though is to place the old design and the new one side-by-side.  First, here is the homepage as it currently exists:\n\n\n\n\nNow, here is the new design for the homepage, courtesy of LinkedIn:\n\n\n\n\nYou'll notice immediately that the emphasis is on the top navigation, that the main content has been pushed to the left hand side of the screen, and that each of the top menu items have a deeper web of subcategories under them (just look at the options under \"Groups\" as an example).\nOne more comparison.  This is a profile page currently:\n\n\n\n\nAnd here is the new one:\n\n\n\n\nYou'll notice that content has been moved up the page (this is very important - it requires less scrolling and thus less chance of people bouncing off of the page) and a far stronger focus on the profile and its content. \nThe key to this entire design it seems is the removal of the left hand navigation bar, which we are fans of.  It distracted users away from the important information on the page.  While the design is still being tested and iterated upon, more and more users should be seeing this layout relatively soon.\nLet us know what you think of it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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