[thelist] When good sites go bad (Salon.com)

Ugh. I don't know what they used to look like, but that design *is*
bad..

Sadly, looks like they're trying to become a vortal(buzzword bingo today
;) or vertical portal - they have weather, travel planner, shopping, and
enough ads to make me hurl.. ;)

Seriously.. How many sites need weather reports? Its not like I look
outside and think, "I bet salon.com has weather info, lemme go check it
out!" they used to have focus.. Sadly, like another before it *cough*
they lost focus and tried to be too many things to too many people,
which leaves you without the people that make a site(community) what it
was in the first place.

.djc.

Teresa_Molina@hartehanks.com wrote:
> 
> I don't know about the rest of you, but I have enjoyed Salon.com on a daily
> basis. Not only for the entertaining articles (I appreciate the fact that you
> can read a serious analysis of the Gore-Bush political race on one page and the
> diary of an Asian-American hooker on another), but for the spare elegance of
> their editorial design. I must cop to using their pages as a litmus test for my
> own work -- I thought it the best example of good content design online.
> 
> Unfortunately, they've gone through a redesign. And, you know what: they're
> using a five-column grid. FIVE! Online. I can't even begin to imagine what they
> were thinking. There's a bunch of other things that bother me, but mostly this:
> The classy, elegant looks are gone simply for the sake of change. And it sucks.