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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The BBC has unveiled the beta of its new (portal) homepage and going by what has been disclosed about the  ongoing redesign effort so far, the changes are going to give a fresh look and feel to the site.
A previous post on this blog had referred to the changes to the basic news site page [...]

From the glimpses we have been offered of the ongoing BBC website redesign, the changes in the offing are going to be perhaps the most significant in recent years, but well short of being radical.
The grid composition is going to change.
"The new grid is based on 31 sixteen pixel columns with two left hand columns [...]

Horizontal navigation schemes seem to be becoming more prominent and bolder, going by recent news site redesigns. The fonts have become larger and the colours more striking. Take a look.

It’s important to find ways of introducing readers to a major news site redesign: not only do they have to come to terms with  it but also be motivated to provide feedback on it. Not all sites are able to do it well or even to the reasonable sastisfaction of the thousands of readers who [...]

This Nieman Journalim Lab post says that the AnnArbor.com website, which was launched following the closure of  Ann Arbor News has an unconventional home page, "organized by time and not importance."

Organising posts in a chronological order is a challenge for news sites because prioritization, which I believe is vital to effective news delivery, is [...]

Thoughts for news site managers in 2009; my focus is more on small and medium news sites that do not have the benefit of being served by large technical teams.
Have a vision for your site:  I know, you already have one; but the clearer it is the better. It may be something that is [...]

Somewhere down the line, a news website front page usually ends up having long lists. A lot of the elements on the page take the shape of lists, prolific among them being story headlines connected with different sections of the site. And the more the news categories the longer the list. Many news site front [...]

We know of the strong association between pink newsprint and financial newspapers; but is this the first time that a financial news website has decided to go pink after having stuck to the default white page background-colour for ages?
A report in The Guardian described how the website of the UK-based Financial Times chosen “the trademark [...]