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And the winner is…

December 18, 2006 at 10:36 pm In Rants, stuff I like, No Comments

And the winner for new news website revamp is… www.stuff.co.nz

The herald revamp looks nice and shiny but stuff have obviously gone the extra distance and have clear navigation and use of colour to make it easy to find your favourite haunts easy. Everything is just colour coded and soooo damn friendly, I love my green and blue sections oh so much.

By why doesn’t the Herald really get my vote? We I got the feeling there was more adds than content as I found my self reading a short article (2 paragraphs) and found the copy was overwhelmed by all banner add, the skyscraper, the inset, the adds from Google, and the rest… and to think the web was once pure and clean, and to think also (if you can manage two thoughts) that it wasn’t too long ago that the media themselves used to whinge and moan about how no one will ever make any money out of the web. Today our web looks like a newspaper… hmmm. Anyway… one thing the Herald does do well is the use of space. On stuff you can go to a major section, like business, and have oodles of empty space as you scroll down the page, whereas the Herald seems to fill up the pages more (although usually with more ads). Okay so adds grind my gears! But in general I can find my way around stuff with more ease than the Herald, and that’s at the end of the day what I care about. Just the facts ma’am.
Anyway, good stuff… ah Stuff.