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Your Guided Tour of the All-New PCWorld.com

Harry McCracken

Welcome to the next generation of PC World--the most sweeping and ambitious upgrade we've ever made to our Web site. What's new? Dozens of things, all designed to give you even more useful, timely tools for researching, buying, and using technology products for work and home.

The site's makeover starts with a bold new look and feel, courtesy of our design partner MetaDesign. But the changes we made go deep below the surface. And all across PCWorld.com, they let you:

1. Find stuff faster.

If you're like most people who come to PCWorld.com, you usually arrive with a specific goal in mind. On our home page (and on every PCWorld.com page), you'll find a new navigation system designed to get you where you want to go as swiftly as possible.

2. Make your PC World more personal.

No two PCWorld.com visitors have quite the same needs and interests. So we've made the new site a more customizable place than its predecessor.

Home-page customization is only one way in which the new site lets you personalize your PC World experience. All over the site, you'll find the 'Add to My Pages' icon (shown here at the left), which is a small plus sign and page.

3. Get more out of reviews.

As always, product reviews are among the most popular content on PCWorld.com. On the new site, we've worked hard to make them even more useful.

Want to research hardware products in a major category such as Cameras, Desktop PCs, Printers, or Televisions? In our new Hardware review section, as well as elsewhere on the site, you'll see a 'Find a review' link near the top of the page.

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4. Join the conversation.

When it comes to technology, you've got questions, opinions, and expertise. So do the millions of other folks who visit PCWorld.com. And our new site provides three ways to share all of the above with the rest of the PC World community (to post, you'll need to register as a PCWorld.com member):

Comments. Just finished reading a PC World article and have a reaction? Share it with other site visitors: Click the Comment icon, and you can post a response. (Published comments appear at the bottom of an article.)

User reviews.

Our Downloads section provides a similar evaluation feature that lets you rate and review shareware, freeware, and demos, along with User Reviews you can read to see what others have to say.

5. Discover other new features and changes.

You'll find other enhancements all over the site. Such as:

Easy article sharing. When you find an article on PCWorld.com you'd like to share with a colleague or friend, click the E-Mail link near the top of the page, and you can quickly e-mail them a link to the story.

Improved column and blog navigation. The new Columns & Blogs section puts all of our popular columns and blogs in one place for easy perusal. Columns (such as Answer Line) are presented in a handy new format that starts with the current installment, then works its way backward so you can check out previous editions.

New ways to get prices. Are you looking for our Product Finder, which lets you locate online merchants that offer a product and see how much you'll pay? We've renamed it Latest Prices, and it's accessible from the top of every PCWorld.com page. Info on sellers is just as readily available within product reviews--click on the new Pricing tab for a full list.

We hope you'll like the new site--and whether you've got compliments, criticisms, or ideas for additional tweaks or new features, we want to hear them. Drop by our forum discussion of the site and let us know what you think--and thanks for being part of the PC World community.