in my opinion the website isn't refreshing at all. For me it is a masterpiece of how you shouldn't do it; especially for a client like mtv. The different font sizes are not good and the website is despite the nice background images and the top navigation a bad example how to get away from flash and use XHTML+CSS instead. I don't like the structure and also the grid design is strange. Sorry, not my website at all and far away from a source of inspiration.

This site is awful! The contrast is off, the grid setup is very strange. Holy crap.. this is possibly one of the worst makeovers I have ever seen!

Are you joking? A new site already? They paid 1.5 Mill to Fantasy Interactive for their old one, and now they put this POS up? I mean come on. You don't even need to be a designer to realize that this site is horrible. Go look at MTVLabs and see what everyone else is saying.

This is quite possibly the WORST redesign of a site i've ever seen.

I have to agree. I don't remember visiting their older website but this one is quite far from inspiring at all. if this is an improvement from previous version, I can't imagine how bad it was.

beside, there is some issue with their scripts continuously refreshing the whole page when displaying restricted content (out of U.S.).

I have to just chime in here and make sure that although people don't appreciate the design they should appreciate the consult that Dan provided from a markup standpoint, is not directly correlated to the trainwreck of visual ungoodness that they've got up there. On a personal note I think MTV has lost site of who they are.

Personally, I'm glad they ditched the old design. Previously the site took *forever* to load so navigating it was a nightmare. Alot of users are complaining about broken functionality, which I can agree is a step backwards but that kind of stuff can be fixed.

Visually, I don't think what they've done is all that bad, but it's not entirely fantastic either. I do appreciate the MTV HATS aspect of it though. Don't like the graphic design of the page? Refresh and you've got a new one.

The grid design seems pretty safe to me; nothing groundbreaking...which I feel holds true for the new design overall. Safe.

I have to disagree here. The new site is nothing spectacular. It seems to me it was pretty hastily put together as one of the major complaints is that videos and music are being interrupted by page refreshes.

They took a "classic" example of a rich experienced and used the wrong technology to deliver an experience that so far has irked the majority of folks.

I think it was a bad move strategically and the execution was even worse.