the new stltoday.com layout

[TheoSqua]

is like a crappy version of usatoday. The javascript dropdown menu is hideously large, the layout is cumbersome and really doesn't make much sense in a viewpoint perspective.

It seems like our local paper is more concerned about optimizing ad space on their website than making sure they actually have a readable and user friendly site that people want to visit.

Maybe i'll get used to it, but currently I think it sucks.

[cardinalkarp]

Its terrible, it looks like its very "unfinished".

[heyzeus]

If only they could find a way to include more popup ads. That would make it more super.

[omaha_red]

they mess with that site more than larussa messes with the line-up..

[Radbird]

Hopefully, the pain of something new will only be temporary. Please understand it's a work in progress.

Among the issues still to be resolved: More forum topics on each page. No, really: that is supposed to be resolved with this redesign. I'm staying on top of that as a major "tweak" still to come.

-- mike

I thought the old layout was butt fugly, so I'll give them time to work out the bugs with the new one.

[jeffbgoofy]

only gripe is that it is too white...other than that will have to get used to it or spend even more time over here...

[Jocephus]

looks awful to me

[Michael]

It's an improvement over what they had before.

[JL21]

I kind of like the content portion of it but that gradient teal background made me gasp in horror.

[TheoSqua]

looking at archive.org it looks like they redesign it once a year. At least they're stickign to CSS layouts these days. It still reminds me of like yahoo.com 10 years ago.