VRT website goes back in time
Disclaimer: I am no designer. But when I take a look at the restyled VRT news site, I start to shudder. This is the initial look:
So, a few things that particularly bother me. The banner with the presenter's faces is far too large. I know what these people look like and it add no value to the page whatsoever. The video selection row is too intrusive, and should be placed on a sub-page, or at least somewhere below. The first thing I like to do is choose a main topic, not watch videos. And the bar is just ugly. The headlines are centered in the page, but they take up too much space. It seems like they want a picture for everything. The main topic selection box is located on the wrong place: too low and on the right. In this country, we read from left to right, top to bottom.
And then there is this (this link might be illegal according to their terms of use ;-):
As far as I know, you cannot disallow people to link to a page.
Yeah, I have to agree with you. Today, I visited the new website too, and they basically chased me away. I didn't get a quick overview of news items, which is what I was looking for. They try to shove you multimedia and Web 2.0 stuff down your throat when you don't even want to...
I'll stick to my favorite newspaper website, and I hope the restyling of their tv studio isn't as annoying as their website is, otherwise we'll have to switch to VTM *shudder*
And the no-linking-without-permission policy is just plain stupid. I dare anyone to sent them a formal letter requesting permission to put a link to some part of their website on his/her own site... Just to see what happens :-)
it's too busy! I think I find the RSS feed on the left the most offensive, how can you mess up something as simple as an RSS feed? Maybe next time guys...
http://www.kuleuven.be/vesta/Intercultural/plagiarism.htm or http://www.kuleuven.be/plagiaat/index.html
Well, some state that putting a deep link is already plagiarism... it's 20th Century thinking....
If you link, you clearly defer to the original, so it cannot be plagiarism. Anybody claiming otherwise, needs to wake up.