jasonj
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Looking for New Orleans related news on an unimportant topic, I accidentally typed nola.com into my browser's URL bar and hit enter a few minutes ago. I say accidentally because I almost immediately stopped going there when the horrible new layout was introduced last year.
Well, it's still as bad as I remember it.
Huge menus that block what I was reading when I accidentally mouse over them? Check.
Advertisements that grow and shrink randomly, causing the page to jump around while you are trying to read or scroll down? Check.
No more than four visible headlines in the 900 vertical pixels that make up the first page of the site on my screen (two articles, if the current Hornets ad decides to slide open)? Check.
Completely unorganized news "feeds" on that make it impossible to separate good TP articles from two sentence posts that belong on Twitter? Check.
Editing mistakes that make me wonder if they are too cheap to even hire a high school intern to proofread articles, ahem, blog posts before they released to the public? Check.
News articles that have so little information that you have to assume the Google page rank is more important than actually delivering information to the reader? Check.
I feel bad for everyone who has ever worked for the TP as well as New Orleans as a whole, who has to watch it's long standing paper die it's inevitable death while the Newhouse family makes a ton of cash purposely running it into the ground.
So bump this thread every time you go to nola.com and the website is still a horribly designed mess that makes you want to claw your eyes out.
Well, it's still as bad as I remember it.
Huge menus that block what I was reading when I accidentally mouse over them? Check.
Advertisements that grow and shrink randomly, causing the page to jump around while you are trying to read or scroll down? Check.
No more than four visible headlines in the 900 vertical pixels that make up the first page of the site on my screen (two articles, if the current Hornets ad decides to slide open)? Check.
Completely unorganized news "feeds" on that make it impossible to separate good TP articles from two sentence posts that belong on Twitter? Check.
Editing mistakes that make me wonder if they are too cheap to even hire a high school intern to proofread articles, ahem, blog posts before they released to the public? Check.
News articles that have so little information that you have to assume the Google page rank is more important than actually delivering information to the reader? Check.
I feel bad for everyone who has ever worked for the TP as well as New Orleans as a whole, who has to watch it's long standing paper die it's inevitable death while the Newhouse family makes a ton of cash purposely running it into the ground.
So bump this thread every time you go to nola.com and the website is still a horribly designed mess that makes you want to claw your eyes out.