Weddingbee Blog

EDIT: The new design is live!  Thanks to everyone for your feedback.  We’ll continue to make little tweaks here and there, based on your comments and on our collective experience using the redesign on the live site.

It’ll take a little time to make all the little adjustments that optimize the new look, so please give us a few days to sort it all out!  And keep the detailed feedback coming!

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Ever since we launched Weddingbee PRO, we’ve been wishing we could redesign Weddingbee to have a wider look.  It’s awesome having up to 600 pixels on PRO to showcase photos.

There was a challenge though: PRO uses a two-column layout, which means that the button ads from our sponsors end up lower on the page.  (You can see what I mean on Weddingbee PRO.)  Implementing that on Weddingbee wouldn’t be fair to our sponsors…

Still, we craved the wider look of PRO.  So we brainstormed about it with a designer, got some feedback from our Bees, and came up with this:

• Proposed redesign: http://www.weddingbee.com/?preview_theme=wb110

It’s funny how the design has come full circle - the big bride in the upper left takes us back to our roots, as it’s very similar to one of our earlier designs!

• 2005 design: http://www.weddingbee.com/?preview_theme=wb10

I know I said the last site redesign was our hardest one yet, but this one was even harder!  Still, I like that the new design is so simple… and that it evokes our old school design with the big bride.  It was a sad day when we had to shrink her down, so I’m kinda excited to blow her back up!

What do you think?