The New York Times launched a redesigned website a few minutes ago. Many of the changes are subtle, but they’ve added a few new features which I really appreciate. First, they now have a dedicated area of the site to show video clips. And more importantly, they have a “most popular” area that includes most emailed, most blogged, and most searched articles. I like the directions the Times is going - and I also note that they are now experimenting with linking to blog posts directly from articles.
Some of the changes and new features you’ll see are a refreshed look, streamlined navigation, expanded use of video and other multimedia and better ways to see what other readers are looking at, searching for and talking about.
How long before they display blog content directly within NYTimes.com, perhaps via blogburst?
I’m definitely hoping NYT jumps on the Blogburst trend. Either that service or its own “contextual bloglinks” would be a huge step forward in validating the relevancy of small publishers’ opinions in current events conversation. Nice to see the NYT might be slowly moving this way as its articles are some of the most blogged on the net. The pay for play NYT archives, however, will continue to plague bloggers (who prefer not to hack their own archive links)…
NY Times owns a company called Blogrunner, which created ‘The Annotated NY Times’. So my bet is they’re using that technology.
But the Blogrunner page *still* doesn’t acknowledge the NY Times owns it! What’s up with that?
Their redesign has some similarity with NYMag.
Like the recent cnn.com redesign,
it creates a wider web page! I now have
to stretch my browser more and more
to see everything. Are these sites going
to require full screen browers soon?
I was thinking it looked kinda like theonion.com, only, uh, less green.
Like the recent cnn.com redesign, it creates a wider web page! I now have to stretch my browser more and more to see everything. Are these sites going to require full screen browers soon
No, just a monitor with support for 1024 x 768 px screen resolution. Do you really browse with a 640 px window? Bigger monitors, at least 17″, are pretty darned cheap these days.
I was thinking it looked kinda like theonion.com, only, uh, less green.
Khoi Vinh, designer behind the re-launched Onion, was part of the implementation team, not the design team. Any direct similarities are likely not intended.
I love the most blogged stories list. Great idea to see wht content is genrating buzz.
Gah, they’ve done it! They’ve created reddit — without all the user-generated content.
The similarities between http://www.nytimes.com and http://www.jot.com are startling.
Nice work, Mr. Wain!
Actually the redesigned NY Times website shares some of the changes that I noticed on the International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com) site in the past 2 weeks.
Serge
Biz:
http://www.njconcierges.com
Blog:
http://sergetheconcierge.com
Another subtle web redesign: http://www.cnn.com/
I agree with Geof. We need more space to see what’s on the page. It’s too much information for a single screen. They could be more sellective on this information architecture.
The Video is a great and long overdue asset…
But the homepage layout seems to have no logic to it; category-postions appear almost random.
Perhaps putting so many topics and links and the homepage was to save bandwidth by having users scroll down instead of click on new directories.
Interestingly, it still has that “traditional” look - so as to maintain the Image of a Newspaper