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Another great thing that The Verge has going for it is the layout and design of their articles. In an AMA on reddit [1], a member of the Vox Media Product Team

Another great thing that The Verge has going for it is the layout and design of their articles. In an AMA on reddit [1], a member of the Vox Media Product Team said they actually have the writers do a basic layout of their article (with full text and everything), then another dedicated designer to further refine it. I've never read of any other sites doing this, so I found it quite interesting. We built a snippet system for our long-form features. Imagine a regular WYSIWYG editor where the author can insert "snippets" like "picture on left" or "full width overlay", and then they add whatever text and images they like. From there, the feature writer will work with a dedicated designer to further hone the look and feel of the piece with custom SCSS inclusion. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/12gm3c/vox_media_product_team_builders_of_sb_nation/c6uvgzh http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/12gm3c/vox_media...

chaz 14y ago
Some of their best stuff is in their features section: http://www.theverge.com/features/ http://www.theverge.com/features/ Each one is built like its own long-form magazine article. Most other sites just lay this stuff into their standard template, but many of The Verge's long-forms have been custom designed for each article. http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3904298/bikini-kill-is-making-things-again http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3904298/bikini-kill-is-maki...
Osiris 14y ago
The design of the homepage is pretty awful, in my opinion. It lags on anything a few years old and the multiple columns make it hard to pick out articles. I don't read The Verge specifically because I think the homepage is terrible. I'm equally annoyed with ArsTechnica's three column layout. I either have to skim titles horizontally which is confusing because each column is a different category, or scroll down, back up, down again, back up, etc. just to look at all the headlines. People read left to right, top to bottom. The homepage layout should follow that pattern. Anything else is counter-intuitive.
- aw3c2 14y ago
  I thought "how bad can it be" and opened the homepage on my netbook. The browser loaded stuff for about 10 seconds and then froze for another 10-20 until the page was rendered.
  - seanmcdirmid 14y ago
    If you have the hardware, The Verge is nicely designed, almost as well as Ars. But people who don't like Tiles and prefer flat lists might not like it.

chaz 14y ago

Some of their best stuff is in their features section: http://www.theverge.com/features/ http://www.theverge.com/features/ Each one is built like its own long-form magazine article. Most other sites just lay this stuff into their standard template, but many of The Verge's long-forms have been custom designed for each article. http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3904298/bikini-kill-is-making-things-again http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3904298/bikini-kill-is-maki...

Osiris 14y ago

The design of the homepage is pretty awful, in my opinion. It lags on anything a few years old and the multiple columns make it hard to pick out articles. I don't read The Verge specifically because I think the homepage is terrible. I'm equally annoyed with ArsTechnica's three column layout. I either have to skim titles horizontally which is confusing because each column is a different category, or scroll down, back up, down again, back up, etc. just to look at all the headlines. People read left to right, top to bottom. The homepage layout should follow that pattern. Anything else is counter-intuitive.

aw3c2 14y ago
I thought "how bad can it be" and opened the homepage on my netbook. The browser loaded stuff for about 10 seconds and then froze for another 10-20 until the page was rendered.
- seanmcdirmid 14y ago
  If you have the hardware, The Verge is nicely designed, almost as well as Ars. But people who don't like Tiles and prefer flat lists might not like it.