UK: Guardian unveil blog site redesign
Posted by Katherine Thompson on September 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM
The Guardian has unveiled its new blog redesign. The makeover not only involves visual changes, but an overhaul of the technological capabilities of the site as well.
For the bloggers at the Guardian themselves, the team is moving over to R2 and getting rid of Moveable Type.
To make the changes easier to comprehend, the team has handily broken down all the changes into bite-size sections:
New design
The blog is being brought into line with the rest of the guardian.co.uk site. However, it will retain the essential characteristics of a blog, for example, the blogs posts will still appear in reverse chronological order. All the blogs will also be getting new colours and fresh banner images.
Keyword links
Previously, keyword searches did not apply to Blogs on the site. Now, by folding blogs into the rest of the site, blogposts will be fully linked to existing keywords on the rest of the site. Users will be able to find related articles and other blogposts.
New navigation
The navigation system has also been upgraded to make it more user friendly and to build a closer relationship between the blogs and the sections they belong to. Blogs will now be housed within the relevant content section: the Politics blog, for example, will sit within the Politics section
Pagination has also been added so users can page back to previous posts, even older ones that have been pushed off of the front page
Sharing
Furthermore, it is now possible to email blogposts to friends, clip them to your user account, or share them via Facebook, Digg, reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, etc.
Link to the rest of the blogosphere
They have added a new widget called 'Most Talked About' on the Guardian.co.uk homepage. It lists which articles on guardian.co.uk are the most linked to in the blogosphere and then ranks them by popularity.
New community features
Blog comments will now use the new Pluck module for commenting, like the "Comment is Free" section. Pluck allows for user avatars and archiving of previous comments.
Source: Guardian.co.uk
See also:
UK: Guardian.co.uk,Telegraph.co.uk and Mail Online top three popular newspaper sites in July
UK: The Guardian e-reader version planned for release in 2015
UK: Nielsen Online: Guardian "UK's most popular newspaper website"
To make the changes easier to comprehend, the team has handily broken down all the changes into bite-size sections:
New design
The blog is being brought into line with the rest of the guardian.co.uk site. However, it will retain the essential characteristics of a blog, for example, the blogs posts will still appear in reverse chronological order. All the blogs will also be getting new colours and fresh banner images.
Keyword links
Previously, keyword searches did not apply to Blogs on the site. Now, by folding blogs into the rest of the site, blogposts will be fully linked to existing keywords on the rest of the site. Users will be able to find related articles and other blogposts.
New navigation
The navigation system has also been upgraded to make it more user friendly and to build a closer relationship between the blogs and the sections they belong to. Blogs will now be housed within the relevant content section: the Politics blog, for example, will sit within the Politics section
Pagination has also been added so users can page back to previous posts, even older ones that have been pushed off of the front page
Sharing
Furthermore, it is now possible to email blogposts to friends, clip them to your user account, or share them via Facebook, Digg, reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, etc.
Link to the rest of the blogosphere
They have added a new widget called 'Most Talked About' on the Guardian.co.uk homepage. It lists which articles on guardian.co.uk are the most linked to in the blogosphere and then ranks them by popularity.
New community features
Blog comments will now use the new Pluck module for commenting, like the "Comment is Free" section. Pluck allows for user avatars and archiving of previous comments.
Source: Guardian.co.uk
See also:
UK: Guardian.co.uk,Telegraph.co.uk and Mail Online top three popular newspaper sites in July
UK: The Guardian e-reader version planned for release in 2015
UK: Nielsen Online: Guardian "UK's most popular newspaper website"
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