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New look on the homepage and a better demo

Hey all–

I just wrapped up development on a new home page for non-logged-in users. The page had had the same exact design since Quizlet launched more than a year ago. The “Top 5″ thing had a great run, but everything needs to get retired at some point. The new design presents a lot more dynamic information and cuts down on plain boring text.

In case you’re wondering, the new picture is a picture of me having breakfast (!) when I was about 10. I just felt like using it…haha.

I also shot a new demo video, available here: http://quizlet.com/demo/. I would say it’s a big improvement over anything I’ve done before :)

On top of these improvements, I’ve made several bug fixes. Most notably, the ending analysis from the Learn page is back in Internet Explorer after a month-long vacation. I made Space Race wrap text so huge scrolling wouldn’t happen as much. I’ve also been working on a few things that should reduce static file sizes to make Quizlet load a little bit faster. Lastly, I upgraded this blog Wordpress 2.5.

In other news, it’s pretty much assured that I’ll be going to MIT. They gave me a pretty impressive financial aid package, and it should be a fun place to be. I’ll be in Boston Tuesday-Sunday visiting MIT for their Campus Preview Weekend, so if anyone’s in Boston and wants to meet up, send me an email (andrew at quizlet).

This entry was posted on Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Andrew and is filed under General, New Features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

68 Responses to “New look on the homepage and a better demo”

  1. April 7th, 2008 at 3:20 am Travis:

    1st!

    Oh, and keep up the good work.

  2. April 7th, 2008 at 4:11 am KK:

    Thank you for fixing everything! Oh, and i love the new homepage, its so much eaisier to find everything!

  3. April 7th, 2008 at 4:18 am psionic:

    Love it!

  4. April 7th, 2008 at 4:36 am Philly:

    Congrats on the MIT you truly are an intellegent person, and deserve that for free! LOL. Also want to say thanks for this website bc i recently moved to italy and i am able to use this to learn italian very rapidly. But i do mix this website with another, it has a conjugator program. Maybe you should add a conjugator and then your site will be perfect!!!!!

  5. April 7th, 2008 at 8:46 am Anonymous:

    i think its a little flashy…….but otherwise good

  6. April 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am psionic:

    conjugate stuff at
    verbix.com/webverbix

  7. April 7th, 2008 at 11:28 am Neil Kelty:

    Looking pretty good there Andrew. I see you changed the “motto” as well.

  8. April 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pm Nik:

    cool, flashy homepage (nothing wrong with that, #5). one thing: the top div’s border is broken, on my screen, on account of box.jpg not being wide enough. since it’s only 1100px, I’d imagine this happens to a lot of people

  9. April 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm Andrew:

    Nik — I actually took care of that problem while I was developing, but forgot to upload the new file. Try now :) It’s also probably a cached file.

  10. April 7th, 2008 at 1:11 pm btanu:

    Nice Job Andrew! I love the new Quizlet!

  11. April 7th, 2008 at 3:25 pm Swazi:

    nice job it is so awesome

  12. April 8th, 2008 at 5:03 am rox/sox:

    quizlet rox my sox off! GO KU!!!!!

  13. April 8th, 2008 at 6:21 am Anonymous:

    cool

  14. April 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pm ams97:

    ball-in :lol:

  15. April 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pm Nik:

    awesome, Andrew, no problems with the borders now!

  16. April 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm ryanpristo:

    kool

  17. April 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm Allie:

    Hey Andrew,

    sry to bug u but the online button things are still not back on the site. when r they gonna be back?

  18. April 9th, 2008 at 12:04 pm *your name here*:

    ThIS SiTe Is CoOL!!!!!

  19. April 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pm WUZZUP FOO!!! oidjflkaHAHAHA:

    loved the first home page, but the new one is kewl too!! :]

  20. April 10th, 2008 at 8:01 am Puella29:

    I like the updates a lot. And I like how you could fit the picture of you in with a punch line “Quizlet eats flash cards for breakfast.” :lol:

  21. April 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pm Veronica:

    Congrats Andrew on getting into MIT! how exciting :D Hope you’ve been having lots of fun and drop a wave to Bettina and Justin and Marquise and the others for me yeah?

  22. April 11th, 2008 at 3:06 am Bigwig:

    Fantastic site - what a brilliant way to learn languages WELL DONE !!!!!!!

  23. April 11th, 2008 at 4:34 am person:

    hey luv the new homepage, but i also liked the thing where you had brain injection and praying and stuff. great job though!

  24. April 11th, 2008 at 6:26 pm Wm:

    Would be nice to have some of the elements from the not-logged-in page in the logged-in page, such as the new set count, etc.

  25. April 11th, 2008 at 6:31 pm dab:

    jing is really cool. do you know if there is anyway to pull the movie part out to edit?

  26. April 12th, 2008 at 4:20 am Luckynumber13(kodi):

    I type in the word Degrees on the create a set, but when I look at the definitions the places where I typed degrees in, It comes up as a *. Whats going on???

  27. April 12th, 2008 at 9:37 am ElizaTurner:

    Thank you very much. Help me a lot!

  28. April 13th, 2008 at 5:58 am JPMF:

    Congrats on MIT & the nice aid package!

  29. April 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am john:

    Congratulations on MIT. You certainly deserve it.

    At what age did you start programming?

  30. April 14th, 2008 at 12:59 pm anonymous:

    its great! what a new and modern look for quizlet (even though it was ALREADY modern, its still awesome :))

  31. April 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm stormiesgirl144:

    AWESOMMMMEEEE!! congrats on getting in to MIT!!!!!!!!!!

  32. April 15th, 2008 at 6:17 am Nancy:

    Andrew;

    Just saw you on TV and hopped right over to check out your site! My children will love it! Bless you for creating this site! My kids are in Jr. High and elementary school and can use your site for so many years to come!

    Can you develop a way to add times tables to quizlet? This is one thing the kids are having trouble learning and something like this would be a great tool!

    Thanks again!

  33. April 15th, 2008 at 6:22 am MyGoodFinds:

    Hi Andrew,
    I just saw your in M and J! You are way too cool kiddo :) . I’m going to encourage my daughter to use your site. She’s only 6 but never too early to get her started learning fun stuff.

    Congratulations for getting in to MIT. You’ll have fun!

  34. April 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm paul:

    Andrew great job on the web site. You really dont know how helpful this is. thank you

  35. April 16th, 2008 at 11:02 am abash:

    Hi Andrew,
    I’ve just started using this site yesterday. So far it has been a big help. It is easy to navigate and is a great program. Congrats to you for making it. Congrats for making it into MIT also. Its a great place.

  36. April 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am Luckynumber13:

    ¡usted es un genio! ¡La idea entera de este sitio es absolutamente asombrosa!

  37. April 17th, 2008 at 8:57 pm vizy:

    i ahve bio essay thats due tomorrow, its lready 10 over here.

  38. April 21st, 2008 at 8:42 pm o snap!:

    MIT

  39. April 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm carrie underwood:

    MIT

  40. April 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm Davio606:

    haha hello

  41. April 30th, 2008 at 11:34 am nobody:

    lol

  42. May 1st, 2008 at 3:56 pm Mikaela:

    I love quizlet because it helps u udersand your spelling words a bit better

    -roselisalou-

  43. May 1st, 2008 at 3:59 pm Roselisalou:

    this is Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    to all my sissys

    pimpinshorty , paigeygirl

  44. May 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am OhYeahImAwesome:

    !i likey the front page! its cute xD

  45. May 10th, 2008 at 5:35 pm idk:

    yea the front page is a little “wierd”!!

  46. May 11th, 2008 at 5:46 pm Andrew:

    BTW-the comments left by people disparaging the new design were all from the same person (same IP address). So I’ve deleted them.

  47. May 11th, 2008 at 7:24 pm john c:

    Thanks for creating this site. It really helps me with spanish and other vocab. I like the new look. When is the new learn feature coming?

  48. May 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pm Andrew is dumb:

    he doesn’t liston to what people have to say.

  49. May 17th, 2008 at 4:49 am Xatu:

    Hey Andrew,
    Love the new design. I was wondering, what kind of HTML program did you use to create the site? I sorta looks like ColdFusion but i don’t know.
    Thanks in advance,
    Xaturukumutuxat

  50. May 17th, 2008 at 3:40 pm lisacullen:

    hey andrew i think that picture is sexy of you

  51. May 17th, 2008 at 3:43 pm eliahmcgough:

    andrew youre awsome
    p.syou need to work on your manners
    p.s andrew you are a little wierd

  52. May 18th, 2008 at 3:44 pm me:

    see! finally another person agrees with me about the dumb picture of you eating.

  53. May 20th, 2008 at 4:46 am anne:

    lol i agree 2

  54. May 20th, 2008 at 6:16 am tourmaline:

    u guys r dorks. u have no lives.

  55. May 20th, 2008 at 6:16 am tourmaline:

    just thought u might like to know…

  56. May 20th, 2008 at 6:19 am tourmaline:

    and wut demo? its the same drab layout fr me…

  57. May 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm OhYeahImAwesome:

    lol u ppl are harsh
    the pic is adorable its awesome lol

  58. May 21st, 2008 at 8:51 am wrestlingdude_11:

    Hey this is KEwl

  59. May 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm greta:

    i like the new design but i do not like the picture

  60. May 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm Anonymous:

    the picture is ugly

  61. May 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm rain_drop:

    What are you talking about anonymous i love the picture its funny =)

  62. May 28th, 2008 at 2:44 pm rain_drop:

    andrew,
    THANX SO MUCH for creating this web sight im learning spanish a whole lot quicker here than at high school!

  63. May 29th, 2008 at 12:06 pm Anonymous:

    rain drop is stupid. a lot of people agree that the picture isn’t that great.

  64. May 30th, 2008 at 5:26 am Anonymous:

    i absolutely LOVE the new home page, as well as the rest of this website. its AWESOME. i told all my friends about it, and now we can all quiz each other through the discussions without our parents getting mad about the phone bills. :) thank you sooooo very much!

  65. May 30th, 2008 at 9:29 am jojo16:

    no me gusta esto

  66. May 30th, 2008 at 9:32 am jojo16:

    yo quiero ir para puerto rico para ver mi titi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:(

  67. June 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm Gabriel Aviles:

    yo tambien quiero ir a purto rico para ver a mi familia en Caguas, P.R.

  68. June 10th, 2008 at 9:07 am Anonymous:

    Eres muy estupido/a y tonto/a.

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