Boston.com

[tamidon]

I'm really pissed that they redesigned the boston globe website into something unreadable, so i'm bitching about it here. To complain with me please call

Christine Chinlund
ombud@globe.com
(617) 929-3020
or leave a message at (617) 929-3022

Comments

[istemi.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they made it unreadable to boost hardcopy sales.

I read it online because when I subscribed I felt guilty about all the wasted trees, especially since half of the papers went unread. I tell 'em so when the Globe calls looking for a subscription. No doubt the site makes money from advertisers, but not as much as they'd like I'm sure.

It's a conspiracy, I tell you!

[electriccat.livejournal.com]

oh believe me... ad placement is crucial.

Especially ad placement "above the fold" (above the place where you have to scroll)

They have people there just trying to figure out how to cram more ads into the site without it pushing out too much content.

LOL!!

[electriccat.livejournal.com]

No WAY dude... ;-)

I was a consultant there for a couple months. Their back-end developers ROCK.

Their little graphics slaves there ROCK (especially this one adorable Japanese guy who I worked with a lot when doing the CARS section redesign.. which I notice hasn't been mangled like the rest of the site).

I don't know which management weasel came up with the final okay on this design, but I do agree it's less interesting than the last one. I'm just not going to complain about it because I know how long it took that whole team to get everything done (it was *supposed* to have been launched in April from what I remember)