November 24, 2008

New Cisco.com Product Page

We just updated the design of our main product page on Cisco.com. Here is the new design:

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This new design is intended to:

  • Help you find the right product categories quickly, by virtue of being much quicker to scan
  • Group products better by category so you can see related items
  • Make it easier to see related service offerings
  • Simplify the page, while allowing access to tools and resources (such as the Visio templates) via hover menus at the bottom.

Thanks to all of the customers who helped us test the preview versions in our labs.

By the way, if you need to, you can also visit the previous design, which looked like this:

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Enjoy!

Martin Hardee Posted by Martin Hardee at 09:40PM PST

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November 20, 2008

Searching Cisco from your Browser UI

Here’s a neat idea that we’d like your feedback on. We have set up a simple search plug-in that works in Internet Explorer and Netscape.

The way it works is that you can add it to you browser and then use the search pulldown built into your browser to search Cisco.com even if you’re not right on the site.

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We’ve set up a page that explains how it works and how you can play with the options.

If there is interest, we will probably do a final implementation that could be added as a plugin to your browser from any page.

There’s a conversation on the NetPro Idea Center where you can join a conversation about the ins and outs of the plug-in.

Enjoy!

Martin Hardee Posted by Martin Hardee at 10:20PM PST

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