How *not* to design a website

[fluffymark]

Oh dear. The BBC have 'improved' their news website, by destroying most of the best features. I used to love browsing around the BBC news site, which was quick, easy, and there was lots of cross links to different related stories on the right of the screen. This week they updated it - it's noticeably slower for a start. And the dozens of links that used to appear on the right have been cut down severely, making casual browsing next to impossible, and its difficult to find anything except the 'top' stories in each category.

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[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Eurgh. Me too.
Vast acres of useless white space, no information about any of the stories apart from the (often unrepresentative) headline, and just *blah*. It also looks a lot more like the CNN site (which I look at occasionally in a kind of 'different perspectives' type way), apart from being less usable.
And the default font is nearly invisible. :(

[fluffymark]

I bet its a conspiracy so I spend less time in the office surfing the news website and therefore more time writing this damn thesis. Grrrrrrrrr. I'll take more coffee breaks methinks. :)