In its attempt to be on top of the social media with its so much in news product; Google Plus; Google rolled out a new look to it last week. The move was slow to start and in a 2 day span virtually everybody was rolled over to the new look. Towards a simpler, more beautiful Google is how guys at Google put it, who now claims that the new look has been rolled over to around 170 million users. Seems the platform is being used by quite a few out there. Here is the introduction to the new improved platform.
New Look
Here is how the new look is:
You will notice a new ribbon floating on the left of the screen and a lot of white space (just below You Might Like) on your right. We will discuss about them both in detail. But for now this is how the new Google Plus stream looks like.
The Ribbon
You now see a ribbon on the left side of your screen, with all the options that previously sat on the top bar of the page.
As you see on the image on the left here the options are now nicely aligned in a vertical way for you to use. Jumping from one to the other just makes you feel like a no refresh kind of a thing and that you just jumped layers. The best part of this ribbon is that Google now allows you to reorder the options in that ribbon to your choice. Just drag your important or most used ones on the top of the ribbon; the rest go down the order automatically.The ribbon as a whole stays intact with only the center part of the page rolling as you scroll down the page, looking a steady look. There is an option of adding more like the pages that you have from the More option available at the end of the ribbon. The new thing to notice on this ribbon is that the Hangouts now have a new home. Separate from the others, something you will love if you are a regular user of the feature.
Similarly the Explore feature now provides you the options like the Trending on Google Plus and What's Hot feature plus suggestions on whom to follow. You may also do a video chat with a maximum of 9 users at once. Watch out for the slider available at the enter of this page that lets you choose how much of What's Hot news to show on your stream (or Home Page).
Cover Photo To New Profile Look
We saw cover photos being a hit with the FB timeline and now on same lines it seems Google Plus has the same feature, although with some subtle changes as we discuss next, but here is the look for you...
The one that you see on our profile is the default cover provided by Google plus. A little smaller than the one you are accustomed to on FB timeline. You may choose the photo for a size of 940 by 180px. The other option is to have the look like you had previously with your multiple photos chosen as the display. This is how you choose either of the options:
The option at the top Choose a template is where you toggle both the looks!
This is how your Circles page look like now.
Mini Profiles
We now also have a mini profile look for the users to look in to. Here is how it looks like:
Ripple View
Now see the how the news/share/post is floating down the stream with what Google now calls is the Ripple View:
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