Style over content?

[marshalla]

Thorodin said:

Maybe, but I have doubts. Avid sports fans will be attracted by the graphics and resolution. They will also be young and healthy generally, and therefore ideal organ donors! That demographic would not be concerned about journalistic tradition - more the 'action' pics. I wonder how many on here fall into that grouping.

Pretty much sums it up - the style belongs on the "Newsbeat" site, not the "News" site.

[Hoofy]

A conversation today:
Him: Did you check out the site?
Me: Nah, they all look the bloody same and a bit st, really.

[Hoofy]

rodericb said:

This ipad i am using won't even open it - the browser crashes.

Even on my PC they've fked something up. I can't resize the browser window even when I go to another tab.

[rxtx]

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[Derek Smith]

DragsterRR said:

Erroneous graphics and page setups that make things take longer to load just piss me right off.
And this "Hey lets design everything for tablets" bks just makes it worse.
Not every has uber fast broadband.
The amount of data downloaded for that article was probably a full encyclopaedia brittanicas worth of text.

What a waste of time, effort and resources.

Well over 50% of emails are read on mobile devices. An increasing, and already substantial, number of people use mobile devices to surf the internet. The majority of news websites are accessed by people on mobile devices.

Web design has always been in a state of flux and will continue to be so for some time.

You seem not to appreciate graphic design innovation and so be it. Many of those commissioning websites feel that whilst download time is important and shuld be a consideration, it is not the only criterion.

I spent a few years not being turned into a graphic designer and it has left me with a life-long interest in the art form. I was taught that graphic design is there to enhance the background of life. No one wastes time trying to do so.

I like the modified magazine style. You don't. The thing with any art is that it is impossible for everyone to like it. To do that it would have to be bland, and no one likes that.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

It doesn't render at all on any of the Linux browsers I haves was to from work

[Jonesy23]

Thought the layout looked familiar. More Shorthand Pro rubbish; bringing overcomplicated web design into the hands of those who can't be trusted with it.

[rxtx]

Jonesy23 said:

Thought the layout looked familiar. More Shorthand Pro rubbish; bringing overcomplicated web design into the hands of those who can't be trusted with it.

It's a mostly in-house built delivery system using jQuery and a couple of other third party libraries, not Shorthand. Derek says it's art, but it's not, it's design, and there will be a massive CMS behind it all.

[saaby93]

Surely it's one thing using graphic design as an art form where the graphics are at the fore
It's another to use graphic design to help get a message across where the graphics are surreptitiously in the background, where you hardly notice them

[RizzoTheRat]

Derek Smith said:

Well over 50% of emails are read on mobile devices. An increasing, and already substantial, number of people use mobile devices to surf the internet. The majority of news websites are accessed by people on mobile devices.

I tried opening that link on my phone, which defaults to opening BBC articles in the BBC android app...which can't open that link.

[essayer]

What do people think of this article?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-ff9a9c01-f...

[RizzoTheRat]

That's the one I'd read before, I thought it worked quite well if you think of it more like a (very short) book broken in to chapters rather than a news article.

[Hoofy]

essayer said:

What do people think of this article?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-ff9a9c01-f...

Makes me want to nuke Shoreditch from space.