Comments on: The Guardian’s Football Site Loses Its Soul With New Redesign

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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:29:22 +0000

[...] the news that Phillip Lahm is free to leave Bayern Munich after contract talks broke down and the Gaffer (EPL Talk) on the redesign of the Guardian sports and football pages. In addition, Roberto Gotta (ESPN [...]

By: Kartik

Kartik — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:45 +0000

Totally disagree. They are simply conforming the look to the rest of the paper. I use the Safari browser by Apple so perhaps I haven’t see evrything yet.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:28:31 +0000

I’m a user of Firefox / AdBlock so I haven’t even seen the site with ads on yet. You have a point when you say it might be a bit too squeaky clean for the creativity and wit present in the Guardian offices, but I think, rather than attempting to copy the Times, I think they were trying to replicate the printed version of the paper online; and that for me is their mistake.

If you take a look at a site like Pitch Fork Media (http://pitchforkmedia.com; admittedly music only), it’s a media site that’s clean and simple, but still manages to evoke a sense of aesthetics fitting to their writing style.

By: dragonki2012

dragonki2012 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:36:22 +0000

this site loses it’s flare and respect from me with all these ad’s…. :/

By: tentonipete

tentonipete — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:14:31 +0000

the site looks fantastic in Firefox with Adblock Plus Add-on installed