Sneak peaks at USAToday.com design
Here are previews of the radical new design USAToday.com is going to unveil this weekend.
The new home page: Note the heavy emphasis on user comments, voting on stories and blogs. Users will have profiles that'll be highlighted in the top right; a readers comment will be featured in the masthead. Users can recommend stories Digg-style, and then sort the top headlines by what users vote on.
On Deadline blog: USA Today is going to feature its successful On Deadline breaking news blog right on the home page.
Feeds: The site incorporates feeds from other news sites -- including competitors -- right on its section pages. Sites like Yahoo have done this for a while, but it's rarer for news sites to do so with direct competitors.
Personal Pages: The site will give users their own personal pages, where they can list interests, add their USATODAY.com buddies and display their activity on the site, such as comments they've posted and photos they've uploaded.
Tags: Keywords in stories will be linked to topics pages with more stories on the subject.
(via Buzzmachine)
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1 comments about 'Sneak peaks at USAToday.com design'This is indeed radical for USA Today, which has maintained its stagnant design for some time now (small tweaks aside).
But none of these "new" features are new when looking at the Web as a whole. All of it has been done before (Digg, blogs, social networks), though not with many large-scale newspapers.
I do wish they had improved the length og their home page -- it's very long!
Posted by Patrick B at March 2, 2007 6:49 AM
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