New CNN Website Design Launches
Two days earlier than predicted, CNN has launched their brand-new website design. You’ll now notice the site’s header is more reddish with the prominent CNN logo displayed front and center, but that’s not all. The news network has split the homepage into three particular sections. Also, CNN will be focusing more on video content with this redesign, which is already quite apparent. But that’s still not all. Users can now set up personal profile pages and customize it with weather, and other things you may be in to (like iGoogle). Within these profiles, users can “follow a topic” to get the latest on it with relevant news stories.
NewsPulse Beta is CNN’s version of Digg, with stories being rated by popularity and category or even type (be it article or video) which is sure to keep your interest.
But there’s still more to be discovered. Users who would like to get a video tour of the “relaunch,” as CNN is calling it can watch this video, narrated by CNN’s own Anderson Cooper.
How do you feel about CNN’s new website design?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
First of all, when a new website takes forever to load, that’s a problem. But my primary complaint is that I clicked on a story that took me to CNN Money and then I couldn’t figure out how to get back. Instead of using the traditional – look up in the left-hand corner of the page to return you to the main home page, now I had to scour the page to figure out how to get back. I finally just closed the page and searched again for CNN.com. Then I finally found a tiny CNN.com to click on the CNN Money page. Here’s an idea: Let’s take something simple and make it complicated… that ought to make the public happy.
I have no time to look for whatever else is wrong with it. I’ll just get my news from an easier site to navigate.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
This is just horrible. Two times just rolling over a news item without clicking sent my browser off the page to a different site. If I wanted to view ESPN I would have clicked on it. Don’t take me where I choose not to go.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I have to agree. The new site is horrible. Way too busy and takes too long to load. CNN was my staple for news, now I am looking for another site.
November 9th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
This website is indeed terrible – hard to scan and even harder to navigate. Takes way too long to load. The worst part? The content seems to come straight from People Magazine. What rubbish. I’ve now switched to nytimes.com for my primary news.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Well, seems like few people have problems with the newly launched CNN website which I still haven’t visited. But it seems that the changes it has gone through as mentioned above are interesting.
November 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I agree with the above. I’m quite disappointed with the new design.