[thelist] News.com gets a facelift

[zac]

rudy wrote:

> how about decent news?    (only half kidding)

Well at least articles that didn't seem to be hurried rewrites of press
releases.
 
> i don't care how good a site's content is, if i can't use the site i don't
> go back

I was thinking more towards the idea of what level of complexity a content
site needs for its interface,

I tend to develop sites with very basic navigations systems and then append
utilities to it that allow the users to find articles or get information
about them (pop ups for direct URLs to the article, links to other articles
by that author etc) .

News.com seems to add a lot of information to the screen (as does ZD Net)
but it doesn't scan very easily and it seems deliberately engineered to make
sure that I have to go through far too many layers to get to the content. As
well none of that txt on the screen seems to be doing anything to help me
get to an interesting article.

Now that might be deliberate but it gives one the feeling of being at a site
designed by by cranky convenience store clerk

"Read something and then get the hell out!"

> btw nice tag line -- i had ether as a kid (tonsils) and have been enticed
> by the smell of gasoline ever since

I was always a fan of organic chemistry myself. Any course that brings you
in frequent contact with ether is a big plus in my books,

-- 

Programming is such a wonderful thing for dyslexics. For me it was like a
bright light. It was a form of communication that didn¹t need to be like the
other forms of communication. You could do things the way you wanted to do
them, and the end result is what counted.

Peter Molyneux --- programmer and game designer