MetaFilter posts tagged with webdesign and redesign

ESPN Motion - TV meets Internet

meanie — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:12:10 -0800

ESPN Motion It's been years in the making, but I can finally say that the Internet has finally met TV, through the medium of sports. ESPN and MSN have introduced ESPN Motion. Along with their site redesign, the once static front page is now a video. Right? You think. Usually this stuff doesn't work, but it doesn't require streaming or waiting (I must concede though that I am on a *very* fast internet connection). Basically you have to register for espn.com and then download a 500 KB file and run the installation. After a few minutes, it works fine. I think the program keeps the video updated in a cache on your hdd but it would require more research.
Note: you are required to have Windows 98 or higher, a fast internet connection, and Windows Media Player.

Unofficial competition to redesign w3c.org

holloway — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:20:36 -0800

Unofficial competition to redesign w3c.org. In early December last year the w3c.org homepage released a redesign using XHTML and CSS. While everyone appreciated the cleaner use of markup the response was wholly underwhelming and most felt the design did a disservice to CSS. ...hence the competition, duh.

nyxxxx — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:21:54 -0800

An example of innovative web design This was a site made for last tuesday's Buffy episode. I thought it was a really good example of what could be done with design...and there's not even any flash. Just the poems and pictures of a fictional girl who knows she's about to die.

Irontom — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:42:42 -0800

Revamping Yahoo's Homepage "The redesign is being fueled partly by advertisers, which are increasingly demanding more real estate on highly visible spots such as Yahoo's home page. Advertisers are irked that they can only buy minimal exposure on the main page of a site that draws a massive audience."

physics — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:46:45 -0800

New Design? Good, Bad? What the hell? Did I click a skin option?

mattpfeff — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:02:44 -0800

Iconocast -- a fairly well known (I think) Internet marketing newsletter -- has redesigned its site. Founder Michael Tchong thinks the new, Flash-based design's "fun interactivity" will one day become "the hallmark of all online media." A dangerous claim to make, especially now.... (Google cache of the old design is here.)

Taken Outtacontext — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:51:17 -0800

Whoa! Amazon.com's added a new tab to it's menubar. And it's got MY name on it!

aflakete — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:30:55 -0800

One of the classier TV channels around has done a site re-design. I think it's pretty neat, but it's a bit um flashy and so drags with a slower connection. I've been watching movies for over 30 years, but I'll still come across a gem on TCM now and then that I've never seen, or sometimes even heard of. They're running some more recent films lately too, like The Hudsucker Proxy a few weeks ago.

tiaka — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:19:57 -0800

August 17, 1995. / Today

muta — Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:31:30 -0800

Razorfish redesigns. Why does it look like MarchFirst?

danwalker — Sat, 03 Feb 2001 13:59:04 -0800

Altavista redesigns. Again. Seems they're trying a Yahoo/DMOZ feel this time, with LookSmart results as their directory. Didn't they do this once before?

hijinx — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 06:12:14 -0800

News.com gets redesigned and ordinarily I wouldn't consider this newsworthy, but the incredible overrun of annoyingly large banner & Flash ads is the matter at hand here.

jkottke — Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:27:48 -0800

The NYTimes looks back upon its 5 years of existence on the Web. There's even a small Flash movie detailing how the front page has changed over the years. When the heck did the Web start getting old?

capt.crackpipe — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:08:21 -0800

Feed redesigns. I can imagine the design review: “Easy on the bandwidth!”

Brilliantcrank — Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:02:16 -0800

Starbucks gets a new look. Sigh. More tabs. I really liked their old site and it was much better than their new home-grocer like design. Someone needs to spearhead a grass-roots organization to stop the spread of tabs. Any takers?

rlef98 — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:22:51 -0800

Amazon.com redesigns with Palm Beach County in mind. [via Mockerybird.com]

hijinx — Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:23:01 -0800

The redesign blitzkrieg continues: Webvan is getting a new look, complete with light influences from Aqua and - yes - amazonesque tabs. As an added bonus, it won't work with Macs. I'm interested to see how this plays out.

owillis — Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:56:39 -0800

Go.com redesigns. Some sort of improvement...

owillis — Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:34:24 -0800

Netscape redesigns. Eh.

werty — Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:37:45 -0800

The Economist redesigns its web site.
It's in the fine-tuning phase and doesn't launch until next week, but it's linked off the current Economist home page. (more inside)

tiaka — Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:20:37 -0800

Anyone remember Studio Archetype? Man, were they ever great!

Today, as I was looking through the "Official Site of the Sydney 2000 Games", I was saddened, at how sick it all is, I mean, little 30x50 banners for texaco? or for something called "win big, click here", it all might as well be "Click here for live nude 18 year olds" for all I care. Design?

There is no design, well, a good one anyway, all you see is this little 2point verdana type that shows the news. Seeing, ofcorse, how no one else does this sorta thing. NOT AT ALL.

All I can do now, is dream of how good the Nagano site looked. And days of Archetype have been long over. Maybe it's sometimes good to look back, you see how every single site has become the same, link news here, provide in-depth stories here, place important graphic here.

rschram — Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:59:34 -0800

The White House redesigns its web page
Spin up front, navigation off to the side. Reminds me of a weblog. I always thought the original deisgn looked too much like the Vatican web site.

Christopher — Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:21:42 -0800

Amazon.com's nwe navigation Opened my mailbox and lookee-here, a message from Amazon.com's Jeff Bezo's for me? Yup. Looks like he's not only trying to push every product under the sun, but also acceptance of his company's new navigation.

fpatrick — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:53:31 -0800

These sliding menus may not be anything much to you design mavens out there, but to a simple engineer/management consultant like myself, they are addictively neat. Whenever I check out the site, I find myself pulling them out and playing with them while deciding where to go in the site. How'd they do that?

ZachsMind — Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:07:19 -0800

"If you never fly, your wings are useless..."