[LINK] Welcome to our new website

[Richard Chirgwin]

Truly awful. Someone looked at the old site and said "where are the 
pictures". So headlines and stories are reduced in place of pictures - 
some of which, like the Nintendo Wii pic I see this morning, are 
directly from the manufacturers' publicity shots.

RC


Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> Anybody any comments on the new Australian IT website?
>
> To me it's a lot less useful, harder to navigate, harder to find real 
> content, full of adverts and is often confusing. The feedback is not 
> all all positive.
>
> But I guess, it's the adverts that pay for it.
>
> The site is at
> http://australianit.news.com.au/
>
> and at one place says:
>
> Welcome to our new website
> Stuart Kennedy
> May 26, 2007
> http://australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,21797024-5013046,00.html
>
> OVER the past few months a team of designers and programmers has been 
> busy renovating AustralianIT.
>
> Our new website is packed with new features our readers have come to 
> expect. The look, feel and underlying code base have been completely 
> worked over to make it much easier and faster for you to find and 
> absorb the quality news and features the Australian IT section has 
> consistently delivered in print since 1964 and online since 1996.
>
> The result is a website packed with all the contemporary features 
> readers have come to expect from online media. There’s state of the 
> art site navigation, search engine optimisation, video and audio, RSS 
> access and plenty of feedback mechanisms for you to have your say on 
> IT developments.
>
> Advertisers will find the new site is not only the natural place to be 
> in terms of traffic and reader quality but also far more flexible in 
> serving ad content, as well as offering a range of new advertising 
> opportunities.
>
> The new site is just the beginning. In coming months we will refine 
> the site’s structure, fix any glitches that arise now the site is live 
> and develop a wider range of editorial content, such as video.
>
> Meanwhile, our journalists and contributors, consistently the nation’s 
> premier IT news team, will continue to deliver the hard hitting news 
> and feature articles you have come to expect.
>
> Again, welcome and enjoy.
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