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A Lot More Work Than Scrolling

The NASDAQ redesigned their site a few weeks ago, and I think they dropped the ball on one section in particular. It take lot longer now to check the most active stocks since their redesign.

In the old days, one clicked on a link on the left navigation on homepage, and was taken to a page listing the Most Actice, Biggest % Gainers, and Biggest % Decliners all on one page. Click a text link and you're able to view the same on the NYSE. Click another link and there's the AMEX info.

Now, one must navigate the slow expanding DHTML cascading menu to get taken to a page with only the NASDAQ Most Active. Then one has to choose the exchange and category and click the GO button to view the next set of data. To view all the data, this has to be repeated 8 times. And one has to wait for the page to load each time.

So what once took 3 mouse actions to view now takes a minimum of 17 mouse actions and a lot more loading time.

I sent an email to the site's Webmaster a couple days after the site re-launch, and his answer for the change was that it reduced the amount of scrolling people had to perform on the pages. Don't know about you, but I'd much rather scroll a bit that have to navigate though all the steps required now to view the same amount of info.