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LDS.org has a new menu in place. The Menu and Tools menus have been replaced with four new navigation options: Scriptures, Teachings, Resources, and News. 
These new menus are designed to help members easily find the most used content on the site, such as scriptures, General Conference, magazines and manuals, First Presidency messages, ordering church materials, and more.
Straightforward Naming
As you explore the menus, you’ll notice that names are more straightforward and plain than in the past. Rather than “Church Media Library,” the option is now “Video, Audio, and Images.” Rather than “My Study Notebook,” the option is “Notes and Journal.” Rather than “Online Store,” the option is “Order Church Materials.”
This more plain naming convention helps you identify content you’re looking for, without needing to know a specific name or catchy title for the content. 
The menus mostly present a new pathway to the same content you’re accustomed to seeing on LDS.org. However, there is one new menu option: Locations and Schedules. If you go to Resources > Locations and Schedules, you can find instructions for locating meetinghouses, temples, historic sites, visitors’ centers, and more.
Sign in Menu
Previously, the Tools menu contained links to local unit applications, such as calendar and directory. These options now appear in the Sign In menu, next to a globe icon. Each of these applications provides personalized information for your local ward or stake. 
One new application to appear in this list is Newsletter. Through Newsletter, local leaders can provide newsletter messages for their wards and stakes. (Learn more about Newsletter.)
Languages and Country Sites
With the previous LDS.org, when you selected Languages, you had to decide whether to view the language or the country site. The Languages link is now a globe icon  . When you click the globe icon, you’re presented with languages first. 
After you select a language, you can then select specific countries for that language. For example, click the globe and select Español. LDS.org shows all Spanish content. In the left sidebar, select one of the country sites for the Spanish language. When you select a country site, such as Area Caribe, the content shows Spanish content specific to the Caribbean area only. 
When you get a chance, take some time to explore and become familiar with the new menus on LDS.org. If you have feedback about the new design, you can submit your comments, questions, or suggestions through the Feedback link at the bottom of LDS.org. |
Comments
Well, you seemed to have killed the concept of the color coding of pages. Now it's going to appear as if every page has a random color trim.
Having that low opacity on the menus causes them look like they have a large border on the top.
I too liked the icons on the tools menu; it allowed me to quickly select something without having to read the label. It would be nice to have them back, even if they were just 16x16.
I'm not sure putting the tools in the user menu is the best idea. Although it's easily discoverable (tools are seen when a user goes to login), it seems like strange place to put them.
LDS.org is made up of many separate projects. While we would love to roll out this change to all sites at once, it isn't practical. You will see more sections of LDS.org update over the coming days and weeks to the new navigation.
Google chrome opens the page well.
I believe that you must have though of newer software while creating the page, but I can tell you that many people in my home country are still not as updated, and still use old versions of navigators.
With limited resources we have to make hard choices of what browsers to support. Unfortunately newer technologies required to support mobile devices and tablets, don't play nice with older browsers like IE7. In an effort to look to the future we have had to drop IE7 support. IE8 is still supported and will work. This too is regularly evaluated for support and will be dropped at some future point.
I think this can potentially create a breach where someone who's logged in thinks that there are logged out and leaving the browser opened, someone else can gain access.
I do like the overall new look and navigation. The interface looks clean and I can get to my desire pages quickly.
I wish however, that you would remove the classic stake and ward website like since we've converted to the new format.
Re the Classic Stake and Ward Website link, I believe that link will eventually fade away, though I'm not actually sure when. All the tools that were available in stake and ward websites have been fully replaced (now that Newsletter and Lesson Schedules has been released).
I was a big fan of the previous structure. It was very easy to use and extremely well organized. As somone else pointed out, the color coding and the icons helped a lot and were very clean and easy to understand. The new one not so much. For example, it took me a while to understand that to change language I had to click the "World", which didn't realize was an icon. Also, it took me a little bit to find out the "leader resources" which were under tools before, and actually I tought they were under "resources" which was not working properly yesterday.
So, honestly, don't understand why you changed something that was working well. Don't see the benefit, but another learning curve to go through.
Initially several linkns were 404 on me.
I also don't like having to wait for a page and large icons to load to be able to find the Clerk Resources. These should be available in the top most tab after selecting "All Callings".
thanks
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Once I found the "Directory" under the "Sign In" tab, it went to the proper place.
But then I had two tabs, Main and Tools that contained the old lists. I love the old "Tools" list, but where did the new 4-item tabs go? And there was no longer a pulldown from the "Sign Out" tab to navigate.
I design user interfaces for a living and this change is awful.
To quote my YM President (who works for Google) any web page that needs explanation (like this page) IS BROKEN!
ps is Tom Johnson or Aaron Barker monitoring this thread?
We appreciate the difficulties that have come up as a result of the new header. We would naturally have loved for it to be much smoother, but that apparently wasn't in the cards.
We know there are a number of issues like links breaking, not going where expected, sign in not working, etc, etc. We have a long list of things we are still working through. Please don't take our lack of individual response to mean that we aren't hearing you. We are working through things as fast as we can, and hopefully things will start to stabilize soon.
Please be patient with us as we get through our list of issues. LDS.org is a very large and complicated site. There are lots of things for us to work through and we are working as fast as we can.
Thank you for your support. Bringing up issues/complaints at least let us know that you care :)
Using Firefox...current version
For example, to find Gospel Doctrine manual lessons, the previous site only involved maybe two steps. Now, I must go to "Resources," then "Magazine and Manuals," then "All Manuals," then "Sunday School," and then finally to the Book of Mormon teacher's manual. Way way WAY too many steps to get places.
Overall, I feel like this is a step down. The previous site was ambitious and good, but this is a regression in terms of logic and style.
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