Comments on: Manchester Evening News relaunches its website

By: Manchester Evening News relaunches websiteâ€¦ looks great

Manchester Evening News relaunches websiteâ€¦ looks great — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:38:54 +0000

[...] the Manchester Evening News has relaunched to well deserved rave reviews. It is a vast improvement on the former incarnation, feeling a lot fresher, more contemporary and [...]

By: Stephen Newton

Stephen Newton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:18:28 +0000

It’s a vast improvement, most importantly it’s good to see all the pop-up ads (served by someone called subliminal advertising) have gone.

By: Mancubist

Mancubist — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:05:11 +0000

X: Yup, the Guardian Travel site stands out for me too.

Craig: Good point about red links. Especially considering the football connotations it’s likely to have. I notice the sport section is in neutral green.

Toast: Some of the best sites are built with Joomla – it’s a great (free) CMS. In this town I’ve noticed RNCM have just relaunched using it.

By: toast

toast — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:50:03 +0000

it is a little 'bloggy' and indistinct CMS to me... reminded me a bit of a joomla site

By: toast

toast — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:48:06 +0000

as long as AceRiley is still posting on *every* story, thats the main thing really

By: Craig McGinty

Craig McGinty — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:05:56 +0000

Hi Chris
The new site has plenty of white space which is always a good sign, although like you I worry that some people will lose part of it due to their screen resolution.

Maybe a link offering advice on this could be featured.

But why red links and headlines?

They are so sharp on the eye, common internet practice usually has red as a visited link, just compare the news pages to the sports pages and I know which one I prefer to read.

All the best

Craig

By: Mr X

Mr X — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:55:31 +0000

The mystery Mr X Shipman commenter was me. I’m not entirely sure how I’ve ended up as Mr X on this blog, but what the hey.

Anyway, there are a few movements on the Guardian website already — their new Travel section at http://travel.guardian.co.uk/ has a design I find far easier on the eye than the current main Guardian site. I’d really like to see more big pictures on news sites; a lot look like they were designed when dial-up was still prevalent, with tiny, blocky little JPEGs to illustrate the day’s top story.