The Independent has redesigned its website. Sadly, despite it being labelled a step forward, it’s still table-based (like all other newspaper sites) with no move to XHTML.
Technicalities aside, I don’t like the look of it either. There’s too much white (even for me) and not enough demarcating the links on the right from the main content on the page. They have JavaScript menus. There is a pointless (and slow) ‘resize fonts’ function. And the dual-column format really, really pisses me off - it’s stupid to have a page several screens tall and having to break reading and head back to the top halfway through. Websites are not meant to be carbon copies of newspapers.
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November 4th, 2004 at 14:51:26
You can opt for single columns if you want to. More importantly, they seem to have abandoned their ridiculous registration scheme, so you can safely link to them again.
Now, if only they could get 21st-Century and provide RSS feeds…
November 4th, 2004 at 16:00:59
My god, that’s an ugly, useless-looking website. Where is everything? How does it work? Why should I care?
November 4th, 2004 at 16:17:14
Oh, and archived articles still seem to be for purchase only.
Best (as in worst) bit, which I’ve only just noticed: the day by day breakdown at the top - eMonday, eTuesday, eWednesday… Welcome to 1998, people!
November 5th, 2004 at 21:17:59
Email duely written to the Independent pointing out how gash their site is.