The English version of Al Jazeera’s website has been sporting an attractive new look, after a redesign.
What strikes you immediately, as an outcome,  is that you cannot generally go wrong if the home page is picture heavy. This is something that I have noticed with some recent redesigns; the reliance on picture-dominated layouts seems [...]

Sounds too good to be true but just imagine how useful this tool would be: you input jargon into it and get clean understandable English as the output.
This is something I came across on ‘Slate Labs’, which presents Slate’s experiments in multimedia jounralism. Before you get set to follow the link, let me warn [...]

Firefox 4 Beta showed off its multitouch capability recently and the brave designers who are designing news websites may have to get used to a future in which browsers will routinely boast of touch based features.
So, that kind of interactivity will be not be restricted to those who have iPads or similar devices - Firefox’s [...]

Should news organisations boldly go the cloud computing way to cut costs and improve efficiency?  Coupled with this is another question: how can open source too be made use of in this regard?
A recent article in CIO outlined how Toby Wright, CTO of the Telegraph Media Group, spelt out the benefits that Daily Telegraph [...]

How should news sites handle dissatisfied and grumpy readers after going through the rigours of a major redesign?
Here’s how two major organisations handled it.
Google News, which recently introduced major design changes, oriented mostly towards better personalisation, gave back readers a bit of what they wanted: "…some of you wrote in to say you [...]

We now have a fairly good idea of how the BBC news site is going to look like after the ongoing redesign, said to be the most substantial in recent years.
Some aspects of the redesign have been revealed earlier: that the navigation moves up, for instance. But in a post on a BBC blog, eidtor [...]

This redesign, which the world is talking about, has Google News developing its core aggregation model in the direction of customisation and personalisation. Google News continues to stick to its strength - which is all about getting machines to do the work of crunching news data from endless sources and moulding and filtering it as [...]

No, we are not talking about customization here.
No, not at all. I’m describing the interesting and curious case of Phyl Gyford who thought that there was a thing or two about news websites that needed to be sorted out. And he went ahead and did just that - on his own.

Now before we [...]

The BBC has completed its home page redesign.
There isn’t much of a departure from the design that was being tested out during beta.
The site makes use of colour to frame the key headlines. Designers who are conservative about using reverse video might have a thing or two to say about this. I think it adds [...]

Google has come up with a Wordpress plugin that will make it possible for many to try out its experimental Living Stories model of news presentation themselves.
The Living Stories model was centered on an ongoing news development - a kind of a news thread - that would be updated with new stories and associated content.

I [...]

How many times have you come across news sites cluttered with banner ads, all competing for attention along with the usual array of headlines and other layout elements?
Probably you would find such ‘ad-overdone’ pages on small sites. A post from Comscore, the media metrics company, the other day explained why it was bad from a [...]