The NY Times, a site I read daily, has re-designed, and while I instinctively dislike change, I have to say that as far as website redesigns go, this is one I really like.
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shingles
I, myself, find it more confusing – but I expect that will change once I figure out where everything has moved to.
rilkefan
I think it sucks – too much stuff on the page requiring small fonts to provide white space which everything gets lost in.
p.lukasiak
I agree with rilkefan…
I hate the new site. The best part of the old site is that it looked like the Times. The new site is so generic that it will make the Time “brand” worth less…
Otto Man
I’m with John, the old one was a crowded jumble of big fonts. This is much more readable.
Hmmm… Maybe the different opinions come down to different browsers or monitors.
Anderson
Jack Shafer likes it, too, so arguably it’s a success. Nice to see that the NYT can succeed at something, since “journalism” is such a challenge for them…..
Jack Roy
Yeesh. I hate it. It looks like the Onion to me. Of course, maybe that’s just today’s headlines… Apple to host Windows… Katie Couric on CBS… Snow in NY in April… and my favorite (ex-) Red Soxk Bronson Arroyo hits a home run in the 3rd!
Helena Montana
I am not a fan of the new site. It’s harder to navigate and hard on my aging eyes–the font is too small and too faint. The Washington section has been eliminated or hidden so well I can’t find it. Say what you will about WaPo (and I say a lot, loudly and often), at least it’s easy to navigate and more or less intuitive.
I believe, however, that I am not their target audience, so I expect they don’t give a rat’s about what I think.
Quiddity
I like it, but the font is no longer Times Roman!!
It looks like Georgia, which is nice, but how can the Times abandon the Times font?
Slide
Read the NY Times every day of my waking life. I hate the new format. Can’t quite put my finger on it but it’s not the NY Times to me. Seattle News perhaps, but not the New York Times. No disrespect to Seattle of course.
Slide
Oh, and Cole don’t blame me for the formatting problem in this thread. Had nothing to do with it. Promise.
ppGaz
Format problem? The thing can’t handle a bunch of z’s?
Who wrote this piece of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?
Slide
ppGaz are you just trying to annoy Cole with your zzzzzz’s? If you are, kudos. The old NY Times format looks more like the paper to me which is something I’ve grown quite fond of having seen it around the house since I was a little slider.
ppGaz
If I were trying to “annoy” John Cole, I’d certainly have more than z’s to do it with. It’s not my fault that the damned web page can’t handle the text. But now that I know it can’t I won’t put in those long strings of z’s, okay?
Meanwhile … I say to you again, the “old” NYT format was the “new” one a few years ago. It’s not the original.
JJ
Hate it. The page is too wide and the uniformity makes it hard to scan. Also miss the hourly stock chart.
rilkefan
Helena Montana, the Washington section is reached by a light-gray link on the top of the Nation page. The time I wasted searching the other day are not reachable.
Barry
I dislike the new style – the old style looked like newspaper, and (to me) was far easier to visually scan.
Gray
I couldn’t care less. Since ‘Times Select’, I don’t regularly read them anymore. Except for Krugman (and their Ombudsman, ok), they’re not better than WaPo. Why pay them for spreading the spin from Brooks or the idiocies of Friedman? No, thx.