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Masthead Undergoes Redesign
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
You may notice something looks a little different about our
masthead
(top navigational area on the homepage) today, and that's because we've done a bit of housecleaning. We've streamlined and simplified the design to focus on the primary experience of YouTube: watching a video. The left side is dedicated to exploration: finding videos to watch through search and browse. The right side is all about organization of the videos that matter most to you: your subscriptions, your recent viewing history, and your own uploads.
A few features have been removed from this area, to keep it as clean and functional as possible. Unless you have items in your Quicklist or Inbox, they will not appear on the homepage
, and the country and language pulldown menus, once at the very top of the page, are now in the footer.
Next up, we'll be focusing on giving you the controls to make the
masthead
more personalized.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.
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