New Look for TuffStuff.com

If you've been a visitor to www.tuffstuff.com - the website for Sports Collectors Monthly, one of the hobby's top publications - there's a decent chance you felt the same way I did about it: lots of useful information, but not very friendly to navigate or easy on the eyes.

The staff of Sports Collectors Monthly is hoping to change that with a brand new look for the site that they unveiled earlier this week. The address is the same, but just about everything else is different.

Much of the change is for the better. The interface is definitely cleaner and offers quick paths to numerous parts of the site. It's especially successful in emphasizing the forums, video and audio content, which is a must in this day and age.

From a personal standpoint, I'd like it if the hobby news section got more play (a comment I also made about Beckett.com's recent redesign) and one would think the free online pricing the site provides would have more prominence on the main page. There are also a lot of ads, but the same could be said of just about any high-traffic site in 2008.

If you haven't been to the site in a while, take a look and see if you find the changes to your liking.