[thelist] News.com gets a facelift
Daniel J. Cody
djc at starkmedia.com
Tue Jan 23 10:49:31 CST 2001
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?
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