Join the debate?
One of the ironies of The Times‘ ‘Join the debate’ motto used to be that their site didn’t allow you to debate anything.
This has been addressed in the newly relaunched Times site, which I initially hated, but am growing to, well, tolerate. One of the things it definitely does well is get a lot of style from CSS alone, without using images, something I think we’re going to see more of now sophisticated CSS design is very much mainstream. They’ve also crammed pretty much every sort of contextual link onto the page you could ever need, but it does rather look like they had a big brainstorm of all the things they’d like to put on the page, then argue about what order to put them in, rather than thinking about if people will really use them all.
The most interesting bit is something that may have been there all along, for all I know, but is Times Online TV (catchy name). As a keen subscriber to The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast, papers are increasingly positioning themselves as general news and comment providers, not writers of words written on dead trees.
Surely time The Guardian site played catch-up?
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