The new Romenesko: not so easy on the eyes

Published Aug 25 2008, 12:55 PM by Adam Reilly

Obviously it's not going to stop me from reading--or, I'm sure, everybody else who relies on Jim Romenesko's Poynter Insitute Web site for their steady diet of media news. But couldn't the people at Poynter (which has revamped its entire site, not just the Romenesko portion) have found a way to make Romenesko a bit less busy?

The problem, I think, is twofold. First, the non-Romenesko text on the left and right margins makes things really hectic, visually speaking, and pulls one's attention away from Romenesko's margin text. Second, the social-networking tools and comment previews after each major post clutter things up as well.

Then again, I'm no Web designer. And I'm already struggling to remember what the old Romenesko actually looked like.

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P said:

I'm hoping the next redesign will go from four columns wide to seven.

August 26, 2008 3:21 PM
John Ettorre said:

You said it. It's a DISASTROUS redesign of a site that's essential for lots of people. Why do web redesigns seem to always go from good to worse?

August 26, 2008 5:16 PM
DP said:

I'm no Web designer either, but who thought that type font was a good idea? And this from Poynter, which in the 90s spent a lot of time and effort on a "readability" study of fonts.

August 26, 2008 7:26 PM
Bradley J. Fikes said:

I guess the Poyntyhead types are frustrated that so much of their traffic goes to Romenesko for their media gossip fix, without visiting other Poynter material. This looks like their attempt at visually bludgeoning viewers, or tricking them, into clicking elsewhere. The confusing layout ensures they'll never be able to navigate back to Romenesko.

August 27, 2008 8:07 AM

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