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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen had in an Alertbox column last year said that "users hate change, so it’s usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually." 
The reason - users have spent long hours using a site, even the few mintues they spend adds up to a lot of user hours over months and [...]

Well Reuters has redesigned its site; a radical redesign and perhaps an innovative one as well. But if the comments on the Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger’s  post on the redesign are any indication, it has not gone down well with the majority of the site’s users.
Well, the reasons are not too hard to [...]

The new-look CNN site presents readers with a better idea of the range of content available on the site upfront, and organises it (especially video) better around individual stories.
The greater emphasis on the visual components was highlighted before the redesign was launched; the top part of the pages are now crammed with pictures and [...]

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 [...]