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Neighborhoodr looks amazing on the iPad, it is the perfect kind of website for this device.

Hopefully this is strictly taken as constructive criticism, but I don’t agree that the current layout of Neighborhoodr looks amazing. It looks good, sure, yet most sites will on the iPad. From this pic it seems as if there’s a whole lot of room for you to take advantage of. Obviously you want to avoid a cluttered look and keep it a clean read, so I wonder how it would look if you guys experimented with a horizontal scroll? That way the content would read in a similar fashion to how local weeklies do used to. 

The roll out of a new device like the iPad seems like the perfect time to unveil a re-design of a site.

That is what I am kind of struggling with. The idea was to try and keep it as simple, clean and uncluttered as possible, and have the focus be on the content. People seem to have really been negative about the horizontal style navigation in my experience, so I think I want to avoid that. I do want to make it a bit wider and allow the images to fill up more of the screen.

I’d love to hear what kind of things would you like to see added, since we are actually in the midst of coming up with a concept for the next iteration of the design.

You know, when I first read this, the notion of horizontal scroll made me immediately wince, as 10 years of considering such things has conditioned me to do. But thinking more about it, on a device like the iPad, it *seems* like horizontal scroll may be more convenient than vertical scroll. I don’t yet own an iPad, and haven’t even seen one in person. But if I imagine using one, it seems that holding it in either orientation, the motion of swiping side-to-side rather than down-to-up would be easier and more natural. You know, like a magazine. Vertical scroll on an iPad seems like it would only be a bit less unnatural than reading a magazine bound at the top. The things that made horizontal scrolling a pain on traditional computers were the mouse or trackpad, especially for those that actually use the scrollbars. But things are different now, aren’t they?

Of course, the laying out of content would be a bit trickier (or at least you’d have to consider things you haven’t had to before) with columns for long blocks of text, etc. But still. It seems like the optimal form for such content on an iPad would be horizontal scroll.

Wow, look at that.

1. I love when something makes long-standing rules obsolete.

2. Somebody by me a fucking iPad already.