Guardian Weekly relaunches…
August 6th, 2007 • Best sites, Journalism, Media
…as The Guardian Weekly Global Network.
I’ve been following the piecemeal revamp of the nation’s favourite quality online newspaper for the past few months. In case you haven’t paid the main Guardian site a visit recently, the home page has seen a pretty radical overhaul - although many of the sections once you click through are the ‘old’ design.
I’ve found it jarring on two levels. While the new home page is graphically powerful, it’s also too much for my ageing mind to take in - not helped by the use of colour coding. And I’m finding the leap from home to old section just too much, like walking through the doors of a multiplex only to find a battered backstreet Ritz inside.
But the new GWGN may just have earned a new fan. It’s simpler to work than the main site, and the quality of journalism from the foreign correspodents is superb. OK, there’s the obligatory ’social networking’ functionality to battle through, but even that’s fine once you’ve grasped that it’s the BBC’s Have Your Say in a new wrapper.
And it’s nice to see a site editor so publicly state his association with his product: as soon as you register for the comments facility, Mark King is included as someone on your Watchlist by default.
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