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The Top 3 Reasons Gawker's New Design Is a Disaster
- shawnee_ 16y agoJust when we thought the era of epilepsy-inducing website design was over. { background-color: ick; font-size: too big; margin-left: way too much; margin-right: way too much; padding: not quite enough; focus: none; }
- adorton 16y agoAre we looking at the same site? I see a clean, readable page. The navigation is kind of wonky, but the site is far from a disaster. Maybe it's because I use AdBlock?
- ryanclemson 16y agoThe way the new design constrains the user is what bothers me most. Having a page that scrolls off the screen makes the content seem much more "deep" than it really is. I think they chose this design to appease the tablet crowd.
- dgurney 16y agoYeah, good point about the scrolling - that choice had to be tablet-driven. Maybe some of my discomfort with the new design is because I'm not used to tablet-style scrolling on my laptop (ie. the content moves but I don't feel like I'm moving down the page). I wonder how this page feels on iPad Safari?
- makecheck 16y agoThe site's right-hand list only scrolls when I use my mouse's scroll wheel. This list has no visible scroll bar (the window's scroll bar has been hijacked to scroll ONLY the left-hand side). They took the part of the site that should be the primary way to discover what the site has to offer, and turned it into a frustrating mess that behaves in unexpected ways and artificially restrains movement. What better way to minimize the time visitors are willing to spend on your site.