19Jun / 2007

Online news done the right way

If you haven’t had a chance yet, go check out the redesign of ABC news. It is a shiny example of what can be achieved when you embrace some of the cool new HTML/CSS/Javascript techniques, while maintaining accessibility and increasing useability.

Even better, it doesn’t have banner ads.. (yet). Oh but it’s pretty!! Homepaged already.

EDIT – Also noticed that ABC news has it’s own twitter feed : http://twitter.com/abcnews/, and that RSS feeds from the site are totally customisable (if you like), based on your keywords.

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  • http://rant.blackapache.net/ OJ

    It does indeed look very sweet. The missus hates it :)

  • http://shiftperception.com Dan

    It’s interesting isn’t it. Reading through the feedback, you get the impression that many people are having negative reactions – although you could argue that this is because all the people who DON’T have a problem with the new look are actually using it, rather than complaining.

    We see it time and time again at work… change something – for the better, for the worse, doesnt matter really – and you get nothing but pain.

    People’s feedback of course is valid, but comments like “1. Revert to the original website immediately. Why fix something that is not broken?” help nobody. And alas, they are the common form these types of feedback questions receive.

    10 bucks that within 2 weeks the readership will have surged to double, triple, what it was before…