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May 06, 2004

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The Sydney Morning Herald has a new website that has completed the move to look like a tabloid paper, despite pretentions to being a broadsheet. On the main page the news takes up about 1/3 of the screen, with plenty of distractions on the sides - the regular celebrity gossip and oddities that are the grist of the modern news site mill. By way of contrast, the website of the fully tabloid News group is far more simply laid out, with the celebrity gossip and the like pushed to the bottom of the page. The news itself dominates more than 2/3s of the page, with only the sidebar taking space. It is easier to read and easier on the eye and obviously substantial thought has gone into it, something that cannot be said for the "new" SMH site.

It would appear that in their websites each of the papers are trying to emulate the other. And the SMH have botched their website renovation.

 posted by Simon on 05.06.04 at 05:45 PM in the




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So now SMH has caught up with The Age, which did the changeover a month ago. Actually I like the new design better than the old one, but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, etc.

 posted by: spacehunt on 05.07.04 at 03:42 AM [permalink]




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