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The New Starnet @ 10:02 AM

by on Jan. 19, 2010, under Blogs and Bloggers, Politics

The new Starnet site popped up on time. A quick appraisal: It is tremendously improved. There is lots of open space and although headlines are in blue the overall feel of the site is clean and white.

Two quibbles: The weather forecast default seems to be Bloomington, Illinois. You have to enter Tucson in the search option. I imagine this will be corrected.

Much more irritating to Star regulars will be the fact that the comments mode doesn’t seem to be working.

Headlines are still in blue, but the whole look of the site is clean and open. I hope we can have something like that here at TC.com.

One improvement would be to rid ourselves of the “blog” look and appear on the site simply as “columnists” or “contributors.”

Here’s an online paper where that seems to work: AnnArbor.com.

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  • Bjay

    I’m the opposite, I don’t like lots of white space.  I like a lot of info to be on the screen without having to scroll down a lot and most site visitors won’t scroll down or wait more than like 6-12 seconds for ads to load.
     
    I liked having it as my homepage, and being able to see the new headlines, weather, etc.,  at a glance with the local and national news not far down.  What I didn’t like about the old way was a good menu or navigational system to get around and keep me on the site.
     
    I also liked how they had community and reader-contributed media near the top too.  It will be  interesting since they got recognized for the old layout to see what this new layout does.
     
    I do like sites to look neat and clean though and well organized and easy to navigate.  Maybe as time goes on I’ll like it’s new look – but I think I’m going to be in the market for a new home page lol.
     
     

  • Bjay

    I mean, what I didn’t like about the old way was that it didn’t have a good menu or navigational system to find everything on the site.

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