Philly.com website redesign thoughts?
May 13th, 2008 by Vik
Anyone have thoughts on the redesign of the Philadelphia Inquirer (philly.com) home page? Looks kiddish to me. I assume this happened within the last few days, and I must admit I’ve been sorely disappointed looking though the new page. I actually thought the old version was relatively up-to-date and better than most city newspaper websites.
Now I feel like I’m reading a comic book. And I still can’t find exactly where the hell the news actually appears.
Looks a lot like they just pulled the old uwishunu template and slapped their content up against it. Nice work.
Yup, it’s horrible, but we should expect no better from the incompetent, unprofessional oafs running our city’s sham excuse for a newspaper company.
Harsh words, but I guess in this case agree. Why redesign the mainpage into something that looks like a cartoon?
After poking around I did see the “Inquirer” and “Daily News” links in the upper left, but I’m not sure that it makes up for the fact that http://www.philly.com looks like amateur hour, as opposed to the actual Inquirer page.