http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:18:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=631 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=628 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=623 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, ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=617 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=614 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=608 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=605 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=602 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=598 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 ... http://www.onlinenewsdesign.com/?p=595