Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal websites to get simple redesigns
Wall Street Journal will also get overhaul in bid to ditch the clutter
Dubai: Three leading media websites are to have a redesign — Reuters, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
There is now a pronounced tendency among such sites for a cleaner, less polluted, thin and white look and features.
NYTimes.com has designed a much simpler navigation bar, where a single button rollover provides access to the paper’s sections. The sections appear listed in the lefthand column.
Changes also include a richer integration of photography, as well as video and interactive story elements; a more efficient and customised navigation for registered users and a responsive design optimised for desktops and tablets.
Reuters’ new package for iPad and iPhone is clean and simple with plenty of white backgrounds. iPad users can browse through layered pages of stories, photos and videos, or they can scan streams of breaking reportage from around the world, up-to-the minute business and market news, or the latest in tech trends.
The same theory that says the readers do not have time to read, online users also do not have time to navigate over colourful and crowded websites. Online editors need to learn to edit and select what is relevant for the users.
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A Twitter byline
USA Today’s print edition with a reporter’s byline also shows the same in Twitter. It happens for nearly all of the articles.
(Source: WallBlog)
A new manga series about Jobs
The first pages of a manga comic book series examining the life of Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs have hit the Internet, giving readers a glimpse at the art style and story written by Mari Yamazaki.
The manga publishing house Kodansha has released the preview following the first chapter’s publication in Kiss magazine in Japan. The series reportedly follows the biography of Jobs written by Walter Isaacson. It is unlikely to follow the book page by page, but it is probably not a bad place to draw inspiration from.
The preview, available from Yahoo Japan’s online bookstore, begins with a detailed colour page – which is rare for manga in Japan – and an art style that is more realistic than most contemporary anime.
