Apple’s website redesign
Did anyone else notice Apple’s website redesign this week? It must have just been updated today with the opening of the WWDC07 in San Francisco. Steve Jobs gave the keynote this morning, which you can watch and listen to at the Apple website.
Well, the new redesign keeps the horizontal navigation at the top of the window. But the two-tiered navigation is gone and the buttons themselves are the brushed-metal look of the Apple apps. It looks great on a black page - which is the home page’s current state.
The navigation links are different as well. Before there was - Store - iPhone - iPod + iTunes - .Mac - QuickTime - Support - Mac OS X. And each of those buttons displayed a second tier of navigation into the Apple site. Now the links are - Store - Mac - iPod + iTunes - iPhone - Downloads - Support - Search. This revised navigation emphasizes the renaming of Apple Computer to Apple Inc earlier this year; and supports the restructuring that became necessary when they changed their name.
Now, you can see the separation of ‘computers’ as just one section of Apple Inc. - access info on the computers hardware and software under ‘Mac’. The other product lines have their own tab - iPod, iPhone.
Apple’s big news on the home page today: Leopard, coming in October. And speaking of design - the Leopard CD has a CD-filling ‘X’ with a face-on spiral galaxy in the background, emphasizing Leopard’s new feature called Spaces.
