So today AllMusic.com launched their new site with a brand new design. I was somewhat looking forward to it as the old design was quite outdated, but at least it got you the information you needed. Now, I'm greeted with a nice welcome message:

Notice: You are accessing allmusic.com with a browser that is not currently supported. The appearance and functionality of the site could be impacted. allmusic.com is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above for Windows.

So now I can only properly access the site with IE? Are you kidding me? While the majority of people still use IE out there, many are switching to Mozilla/Firefox and many (like me) are never going back to IE. Of course, I can't uninstall IE, so I was able to fire it up and see what the difference was at AllMusic (correct alignment, better links, etc.), but really...spending a lot of time and money to redesign a site and you make it work correctly under IE only? Stupid move. Very stupid move.

One top of that, it seems that navigation-wise, they've done just about everything wrong as well. Images don't have the proper ALT text, links are not underlined (which I don't always do, but at least they should change color or get underlined when you mouseover), and there's other navigation snafus. Overall, the redesign sucks royally and hopefully they'll go back to the old design where you could actually find the information you need and actually worked with some reliability.

URL: allmusic