Just looked at it...lol hadn't before.
Enyewe comparing it to USA today is rather unfair to the developers of USA today.
Someone forgot this was a newspaper, not a two man blog with few resources for a good designer. They should have had a bigger budget for their website to be honest. coz whatever it was, it wasn't enough.
There is too much white space on the site. Spaces everywhere.
No sence of form or structure. One block of content overrides another block of content.
sure you want to get more from advertising but those ad placements are annoying to say the least. Compare the ads on usa today.
As for the megamenu being bragged about as being different, thats a $10 script in 2013.
The saving grace is that Nation is a brand. So this shouldn't affect them in the short run. But its annoying to think that the standard design is better. lol Ok its not....
If someone had tried it on their own blog, they'd definately have lost traffic. Lakini tutazoea tu or someone will create something better than that design and we shall move in droves. News is news you know.
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