[thelist] News.com gets a facelift

[Daniel J. Cody]

Madhu -

Do you know if they're still using Vingette as their CMS?(or was it 
something else) Judging by the URL's it still looks that way..

Couple things I noticed..

The random banner ad placement is lame. When I go to a site day after 
day to get quick headlines, my eye's get trained to jump to one spot on 
the page.. That banner fucks all that up. I imagine the reason they did 
it is so the marketing folks could say,

"Well your banner ads will now get 34.3% more click throughs due to our 
patented "Banner ad mover randomizer technology" because the users can't 
just choose to ignore the top half the page anymore! They'll have to pay 
*attention* to what they're trying to ignore, and as a consiquence, 
they'll see your ad!!"

also, as someone else mentioned, a couple things don't line up correctly 
in mozilla .7

the site does look a lot cleaner though from a design perspective, 
smaller uses of the cnet yellow make that possible.

www.zdnn.com also redesigned their site, and its pretty close to the new 
cnet one.. which i would expect after their merger i guess..

.djc.

Madhu Menon wrote:

> Hiya folks.
> 
> Thought I'd let you know that CNET's News.com has just undergone a total
> redesign. Here's their explanation for it:
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-4562916-0.html?tag=goto+hell :)
> 
> Perhaps a few of you would care to comment on what you think of it?