http://www.newsobserver.com

N&O rolled out a new website. My EYES! It is incredibly busy and difficult to read/navigate for my taste. I appreciated the simplicity of the old website and ability to see all of the important stories in front of you, rather than scrolling through a flash slideshow. Also, you can't read an article now without zigzagging around ads.

Am I just old school, or does the new design turn you off as well?

9/23/2009 9:23:48 AM

9/23/2009 9:27:28 AM

YOUR EYES


The light the heat

in YOUR EYES

I am complete

in YOUR EYES

I see the doorway to a thousand churches

in YOUR EYES

The resolution of all the fruitless searches

in YOUR EYES

I see the light and the heat

in YOUR EYES

Oh, I want to be that complete

I want to touch the light

The heat I see in YOUR EYES

9/23/2009 9:29:55 AM

minus all of the vertical scrolling i really like it

9/23/2009 9:32:50 AM

Yeah it seems busy to me too. Why fix what ain't broke?

9/23/2009 9:33:54 AM

More like "Why pay for an entire website overhaul when you can barely afford to keep most of your staff on payroll?"

9/23/2009 9:41:32 AM

I don't remember what it used to look like.

9/23/2009 9:56:56 AM

I've seen MUCH worse.

[Edited on September 23, 2009 at 9:58 AM. Reason : a]

9/23/2009 9:58:37 AM

^^^^
I'm guessing they wanted to match the design of Charlotte Observer and probably only have one web content team, although I would have gone to the NewsObserver site design rather than the new/CharlotteObserver one.

[Edited on September 23, 2009 at 10:15 AM. Reason : .]

9/23/2009 10:14:45 AM

3 ads you have to minimize and 1 popup for any page change is crazy. I never have gone their and never will.

9/23/2009 1:00:16 PM

Doesn't look bad to me, but I'm pretty good at the internet.

9/23/2009 1:14:24 PM

I like this better than the old website actually.

9/23/2009 7:40:51 PM

Quote :

"More like "Why pay for an entire website overhaul when you can barely afford to keep most of your staff on payroll?""

because if they're not completely online in the next decade, then they'll be nonexistant. Their classifieds suck compared to craigslist and online job listings, and companies will quickly switch to online coupon systems. Once those are gone, nobody has a reason to purchase that useless rag.

9/23/2009 7:46:16 PM