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Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Chief — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:20:35 -0000

I like the separation of news, U.S., World, technology, etc.
However, what's up with the automatic scrolling and huge banner ads?
They expand/contract and tend to push the landing page around while you're reading.
Annoying.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

atiqueahmad — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56:12 -0000

Hate the new look. No more cnn homepage for me.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

The Captain — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:38:49 -0000

Absolutely terrible! One of the worst designs for a news site. The layout forces ones eyes to the larger middle section, which is all video of whatever magazine show cnn is pimping for the day. All the actual "news" content is smaller and to the left of center and not featured al all. To much trying to "personalize", be my friend, and showing me what others think is some "newspulse". It's the kind of site people who "tweet" will love, but the dying breed who actually likes to "read" hard news (or have to at work), rather than watch some PM magazine show will hate. Off to the BBC for good it seems.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

InSearchOfRealNews — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:51:39 -0000

Sucks. The main news is off to the left in baby size compared to the middle section. Really odd given the 'news' should be the most important. The mid section appears to be a bunch of self promotion crap or people magazine type content and the stuff on the right is ads faking news. For all the news that's fit to print, I'll stick with the New York Times and the news aggregator that Google's news page serves as. (Btw, does anyone feel like I do about Wolfe Blitzer, Campbell Brown, and Anderson Cooper? All 3 make me want to barf)!!

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Mermaid24 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:11:54 -0000

Surprising similar feel to bbc.com

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Name — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:47:01 -0000

Does anyone know how to get rid of the curtain (or whatever it is) opening when you first go to cnn.com? That for me is beyond annoying. And now I guess I have to choose between ad blocker and cnn.com (just get a white blank page with ad blocker turned on)...

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Name — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:15:38 -0000

Anyone able to sign up in order to customize this page ...

I've been trying but the SignUp dialogue goes nowhere ...

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Patricia — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:18:44 -0000

The one inch red banner at the top is too much.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Name — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:37:46 -0000

Hate the new look. Way too busy. Maybe with a little time I'll get used to it but the initial reaction is negative.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

lang — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:54:55 -0000

1. Great layout and color (red does not signify republican!; it draws attention).
2. Videos on front page too big and fonts too small.
3. No choice in picking videos to watch; I don't want to "useless news".
4. Useless News= celebrities; reporters/anchors putting self in news and talking about themselves; promoting their book, looks like infomercials. (any reason Gupta has to have 4-5 pictures of him on Health page?)
5. CNN=RNN- Repeat News Network; repeats same stories over and over...sometimes the title is changed, but it is the same story or a different reporter covers the same story.
6. CNN=BNN- on weekends it has black reporters covering black stories; Tie ins w/Oprah and Black Essence.
7. CNN- prefers hiring foreign born reporters/anchors (don't make me name them and I have nothing against them!). I guess they like to outsource because they can't find qualified U.S. citizens.
8. CNN- mostly has men on the panels; Where are the Women?
9. CNN- has more stories on Hong Kong, S. Korea, China, and India. WHY? (and usually useless news)
10. Where are the stories closer to home?
11. Use firefox w/addons- adblock plus, ghostery, flagfox, trackerwatcher, ie tab-to use ie thru ff to get rid of most advertising.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Alex — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:54:00 -0000

new design is a total disgrace, this is coming from professional designer, information architect and usability expert / interface designer. Red header- takes all attention, way too powerful, cant read story titles in reverse white on black - BAD usability, top story is unclear, to text just pics and no focus. Overall site usability is totally degraded, compared to msnbc.com this is 10 steps back. WHo cares what features are there, its unusable!

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

astralislux — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:57:14 -0000

CNN is the Parade Magazine of news sites.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

TJ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:54:32 -0000

Hate it. It feels like a blog, and not in a good way. Too visually hectic, too video based, not enough focus on news. And the red they chose is too jarring - I want to read the news, not be screamed at and thrown into a panic by the website. I feel like it's yelling RED ALERT, RED ALERT!

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Michael — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:02:24 -0000

It's slower!

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

carolefordham — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:21:50 -0000

I do not like the new format for CNN on-line. It's much to busy. Now I'm not even reading much of anything. Please go back to the old format.

Thank you.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Vadim — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:55:20 -0000

Hey guys, does anyone have any idea where the heck went articles from "Time" magazine? They used to be in the lower left corner of the cnn.com page (old layout). Now I can't find them at all, and they were one on my favorite parts of the cnn.com site... >:(((

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

hennehn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:48:19 -0000

Don't like it. Its not much different from the old cnn.com. wtf?

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

uidesignguide — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:45:21 -0000

It seems like they buried the top stories: Immediately I was wondering why they were not more prominent. They font should be a bit larger on them and maybe push them up more.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Justin Paine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:07:04 -0000

I think it looks really cheap. It looks like it's a "select a design" from a pre-packaged set of themes in Dreamweaver.

It looks far less authoritative in my opinion.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

money belt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:08:46 -0000

Cleaner, stronger look, but for the ad box pretending to be a news item in the third column.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Jason Cooper — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:25:30 -0000

Sure its fine. Doesn't change the crap reporting behind the new interface.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Dan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:41:22 -0000

The whole video centric thing is just annoying. I dont want to listen to audio most of the time and I sure as hell don't want to be watching a commercial before every video.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

paul kelley — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:38:05 -0000

I'm Liking everything above "Editor's choice". Below that needs some serious work. That area doesn't seem thought out yet. I'm really enjoying the direction though. And if you're complaining about the advertisement at the top, you've obviously never worked in this industry before. I'm sure creative had better solutions, but in the end, not their call. Not in love with the big red masthead, but it is on brand.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

dotmafia — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:59:53 -0000

i hate the new look on the cnn website. the large area of red at the top of each page is very harsh on the eyes (and i'm only 38). i think it should have been blue. just my opinion.

Re: New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think?

Name — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:36:15 -0000

I hate the new layout. Intead of being able to scroll down and quickly find the stories I want, the page is cluttered. Not clean or user friendly.