YouTube is opening up its new site design to users who want to preview the new YouTube. The main new difference in the new YouTube is the addition of multiple obtrusive dropdown menus, which Garett Rogers of ZDNet points out make him “feel like I stepped back in time to 1999 with the drop down menus everywhere.”
It has not been that long since the last changes in the YouTube site and this new design has been thinking, when is too much Web 2.0 just too much.
The new design also lays a lot of emphasis on display advertising, which may show that there is still a problem in monetizing YouTube videos. You be the judge.
i check this out at work and a major difference is that there were several inappropriate video images right on the home page. i was quickly embarrassed and terrified that someone else saw. not good.
the present layout is much better