The might not be advertisements like the banner on the top of the page but there are so many posts about this brand and that brand clothing, bags etc. Sometimes there are several posts like this in a row and it can get irritating. They are also almost always over the top positive so they certainly feel like advertisements to me.

It would be nice if you could cut down on posts like this.

Note from Danielle: Since we only write about and recommend products we like, they are going to be extremely positive. We don’t waste space on products we think are so-so.

A future redesign will incorporate the fashion and gear features more subtley but right now we are limited by the confines of a typical blog design.

also it takes more time to download page, especially photos

Sarah’s note: We hope having just 10-20 posts per page will help with that. Let us know if you see a difference or if it’s still a big issue.

it feels less cluttered, and i’m hoping the new look will make it quicker to load. i love CBB and come on a lot, but it would often take so long to load that i’d get really frustrated.

I love the new layout as the middle column (news/pictures, etc.) is pretty much all I ever looked at anyways. Being a person who does not have any children, the advertisements/sponsors and links to other sites are not what I’m interested in. I don’t mind them, but I do ignore them. )

Stacey, if you download Firefox and then download the ad-blocker ad-on you will be able to get rid of virtually all of the ads. That program works amazingly well.

Just wanted to let you know that on perezhilton there is a picture of people magazine cover with Harlow Madden on it.

Okay, to be brutally honest, to me, it still looks just as cluttered and difficult to read as it did before. The page is still WAY too busy. Too much text, too many ads. This site still loads so much more slowly than any site I can remember visiting, and I visit a lot of graphic-intensive sites. Personally, in all the time I’ve read this site, I have never once clicked on a single link or ad in any of the sidebars – it’s all totally useless to me, and just ends up being really intrusive.

I suppose it’s partly a personal thing – I HATE the color pink, especially fluorescent pink, and so much of it gives me a headache. I prefer subtlety, not glaring, in-your-face PAY-ATTENTION-TO-ME colors and graphics. Sometimes it feels like it’s barely one step above a Myspace page (which is a bad thing, in case it’s not clear).

I think you’d really benefit from having a professional web designer redo the page. Good web design is not that hard to come by.

(And while we’re at it, the site could really also use a professional editor. I can’t even tell you how often I find not just typos, but grammatical mistakes and even egregious factual errors – like getting names wrong even when the articles you’re quoting from have them correctly. That is something that should not be happening on an allegedly professional website.)

The layout is fine either way but I personally feel that this site is turning into all ads. I used to enjoy reading it but now it is flooded with advertising in the midst of the stories. I understand that you make money from this but it isn’t as enjoyable for me as it once was.

Sarah’s note: The rare advertising in the middle column is always marked Sponsor, and there aren’t many of them. Are you talking about our fashion and gear features or contests, maybe? Sometimes, when you click an individual post, there is an ad between the post and the comments section, but that’s been there for over a year. Or you mean the stuff on the sides? Not trying to be a pain, just confused.

Much, much better!
Thank you. I read you everyday from Spain.

This is so much better. It looked too cluttered before, and the page was slower to load.