We have been talking and thinking about it for months, then working on it for a long time, but today it is here and we are happy to unveil the new Hardmac! With this new design we do not plan to revolutionize Hardmac, but rather benefit from new web technologies, to bring you a cleared and lighter website. Be fast, different, responsive and efficient remain our driving forces and the editorial content will not change. The new Hardmac offers you different ways to navigate through the news:
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List view: to display the list of news titles, you can expand the text of each news by clicking on the "+" icon
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Daily view: to display the all news published so far during the defined day
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Single view: to display only one news in order to prevent scrolling down or for being easily viewed on small display.
Fans of keyboard-browsing will have the opportunity to exercise their art with the new Hardmac, moving from previous to next news with left and right arrows. All news are organized in categories and the "filter" option will allow you to only concentrate on topics you are interested in (deselect "iPod" if you do not want to have any news related to iPod displayed on your Hardmac). The new and improved search engine is now localized top right on the website, and requests can be customized to search into news, articles and/or blog entries. You can now switch from the English version (www.hardmac.com) and the French version (www.ùacbidouille.com) by simply clicking "EN" or "FR" in the menu bar. For your information, Macbidouille/Hardmac is hosted on 4 servers, runs on a php Symfony framework, mySQL, and a proprietary application (the forum is based on IPB). We would like to thank members from Innovagency, Christophe, Richard and Vincent, for their availability, reactivity and reliability along this long project. Members from the Macbidouille/Hardmac team have also been working hard during the development, support and migration stages: Arthur, Eric, François, and Guillaume. If you are experiencing or noticing a bug, please send your report with all possible details and/or screen capture to bugs at macbidouille.com.
