CNET News.com Turns 7 172
dmehus writes "Just as Google celebrated its 5th birthday last week, which was covered by Slashdot, I thought it would be equally appropriate to point out that tech news darling CNET News.com celebrated its 7th birthday this past week. To mark that occasion, its Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh wrote an article, in which he reflects on their founding slogan of 'Tech News First' and their commitment to that going forward. He also announces a brand new redesign that was unveiled yesterday. To that I'd add, here's to another seven more! Thoughts or opinions, anyone?"
Redesign (Score:4, Informative)
After pushing it for so long as a key component to thier "tech news" package, I wonder if its been thrown on the back burner, or if it was a mistake.
You can still get to it @ http://investor.news.com/
-mason.j
Can't remember what the old design was like? (Score:5, Informative)
Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 [archive.org] or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996 [archive.org].
CNet censors opinions they don't like? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Redesign (Score:5, Informative)
Gross Profit
As you can see they're not making money at all, and it's surprising they're managing to stick around for so long. And you have to admit 7 years is pretty long for the net... They've beat out some pretty big guys too... Prodigy, Compuserve, Tymnet, shit the list could on for Eons... As for the company financial-wise I wouldn't touch their stock even at the low rate of $8.99ps
new design (Score:2, Informative)
Pro Microsoft (Score:2, Informative)
Image scaling issues (Score:2, Informative)
it would have been a better solution to use em rather than px to set the width, or even %
I understand your point about setting text column widths in ems, but images on web sites can't easily be set to sizes in ems because the nearest-neighbor image resizing algorithm used on the most popular browser engines (MSHTML and Gecko) turns images into pixelated crud. Vote for bug 98971 at bugzilla.mozilla.org if you want this to change.
Re:Yay for tableless design. (Score:3, Informative)