Meet the new New York Times. After
five years, the most popular newspaper on the web has gotten a facelift. Joining a recent web design trend towards
optimizing for wider screens, they've gone for no fewer than six columns on the front page. And while I wouldn't look for a wiki any time soon, they seem to be giving a nod to the web 2.0 crowd with javascipty scrollable image bars and prominent links to recent
video (hello, YouTube) and
current rankings of their most popular, most emailed and most blogged articles (hello, Technorati). The new
Times Topics aggregate articles (and multimedia) from across the site, along with background info (hello, Wikipedia). All the more impressive, considering the head of their design team (who also
redid The Onion!) was
hired just three months ago. Of course, Mickey Kaus will still see this as proof that Sulzburger should be fired.
posted by gsteff
on Apr 3, 2006 -
92 comments
Has the web become boring? (NYT link, registration required) With the demise of the
Cool Site of the Day and the transition of MetaFilter to NewsFilter, the question is posed: Where have all the interesting sites gone? Is this the end of the Web as we know it? (...And do you feel fine?)
posted by dogmatic
on Mar 27, 2002 -
59 comments
NYTimes.com asks for feedback on its new home page
The New York Times on the Web previewed a new design for its popular home page today. The page widens the content areas to over 750 pixels, up from around 500. The page now presents special feature teasers, and links to NYT's hideously unpopular Internet "knowledge network" venture, Abuzz.com, along the enlarged right-hand margin. No word was given as to whether the site would abandon its free registration requirement. "Surfers" may register their opinions about the new design at
newhomepage@nytimes.com
posted by rschram
on Oct 3, 2000 -
16 comments
