Foodista Gets A Face Lift!
By: Sheri Wetherell
Published: March 3, 2010

We're always working hard to create new features and design elements. We greatly appreciate the contributions you've made to Foodista and we've listened to your feedback. It's only through the extensive knowledge and generosity of time from people like you that will we will build the world's best cooking encyclopedia!
We're happy to announce that we've completed a significant redesign of the user interface to both improve usability and accommodate new features.  Below is a screen shot of what a new recipe page looks like. Some of the newer elements include:

A "Universal Sidebar," section on the right, which shows personalized information, including recently viewed pages, 


A "Toolbox" on food, recipe, tool, and technique pages designed to put all the action items in one place,


A universal header with links to new browse pages for foods/recipes/tools/techniques.  


Finally, this new design will give us even greater flexibility to make future improvements. As with any major change, it's common to miss something or fail to anticipate some of the effects on members. Please let me know if you have any feedback, suggestions, or ideas for how we can do better.
Cheers and Happy Cooking!

Comments:
ROKCO-Rok Jurca
March 4, 2010

Very nice and positive change.
Abby

Looks fantastic! Great work! =)
Sortachef

As a writer of recipes who also likes to tell a tale to go along, I'm not seeing how Foodista might help me. You seem to have a formula that lets others give input. Can you tell me how my formula might fit with yours? I'd love to contribute!
Cheers,
Sortachef
Mimi Cooks

The new changes look great!
Barnaby Dorfman

Hi Sortachef, 
If you add a recipe (http://www.foodista.com/recipe/new)you can tell all sorts of stories in the "About" section. You can also set that recipe to "personal" making it so only you can edit it.
Separately, you can use our widgets to create links from Foodista to the stories you are telling on your blog...helping to build an audience for those stories! Here's more on our Widgets: http://www.foodista.com/bloggertools/widgets