.... 23 Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 What a dog's dinner the Post's website has become! I like to take a look in there, along with BBC Nottingham, to keep up with local news and the last re-design is absolutely atrocious! Over-fussy design, ads all over the front page, and repetitive use of images on main news stories to go with the non-stories the once very readable Post supplied. Regarding the latter, an example of this was reported UFO sightings which were in fact Chinese sky lanterns! I'm not sure of the terminology for it but the facility for readers to add their own comments to the main body of the site has caused some problems recently with one story appearing to be 'official' when it was in fact the opinion of a contributing reader. Dear oh dear... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. I used to look at the site in its old version and it was pretty good, but these days it's a total disaster. The thing that bugs me is that you have the main list of stories down the centre of the page, and then a short version of the current stories on the top right corner. Click on those stories on the right and it expands to give a full list of current stories. But....sometimes the stories down the middle of the page are several days old; nobody seems to delete or clear them. Agree also with the point about there being no obvious difference between a readers opinion (and some of them are fully qualified morons) and a news story. A few days ago there was what appeared to be a "story" about an expensive house for sale in The Park; but once you'd read the piece you realised it was just free advertising for the estate agent with no news content at all. I'd be interested to know how that item got where it was. And the "mouseover" effect is totally out of control. You get pop-ups jumping at you all over the place. Pity Al Jazeera don't cover Nottingham. I'd watch them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Al Jazeera isan excellent news channel. Let me see if I can find it on my new Sky Box Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Yes there it is ch.514 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted September 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Another point is that currently when one clicks on a story, a Football League video starts blaring out. A complete intrusion. I can't believe the Post have got this so wrong. It's easily the most dire newspaper website I've ever seen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Do they get Trolls on there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Have to agree that the Post site is quite appalling... IMO, the actual newspaper has become progressively worse over the years - certainly since the Pole-Carew/sackings era and the ending of the Forman-Hardy ownership and influence. Their 'amateur' approach to an online format has always been unacceptable for the news requirement of a major city... For a much better style of 'local' presentation, look no further than the Leicester Mercury - particularly in print. Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted September 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Do they get Trolls on there? Oh yes - it specialises in those. Try reading some of the comments underneath the stories Mick. On second thoughts, don't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted September 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 For a much better style of 'local' presentation, look no further than the Leicester Mercury - particularly in print. Cheers Robt P. From a sister publication on the same network, there is indeed a lesson in the Mercury's simple, clean and easy-to-use design for the Nottingham Post. The latter's presence on the web looks like it has been designed by an eight-year old. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 The style (if that's the word) which we are seeing on the Evening Post is the corporate design for all papers in the Northcliffe Group Do a Google search for "This is"........ no other words You'll get dozens of identical sites in that style, covering all regions. It's a disease which has covered large parts of the country Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted September 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Aha. I was looking at the this link to the Mercury which is a profile page. The home page, as you say, shows the same Northcliffe template. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bigsis 43 Posted September 20, 2011 Report Share Posted September 20, 2011 The last time i went on their site i couldn't make head nor tails of it, gave up in the end! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted September 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2011 Not could I Martine - and I make my living out of research! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Not only have they made a mess of the website, they have now decided to make the paper available from 07.00 in the morning, this means that they have had to move the printing to Birmingham, so much for an evening paper, it will all be yesterdays news. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Good...because tomorrows news is always a bloody sight worse than todays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Now THAT was funny! !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 It was already printed in Stoke apparently. BBC claim the Nottingham Post could move from its base at Castle Wharf, Nottingham. I think if that happens they may as well wrap up and go home. Nottingham Trent University media lecturer Dr Matt Ashton said: "It reflects the fact that a lot of the print industries in this country are in decline and are having to make economies of scale. "Problems they've got going forward include inflation, the rising cost of printing the paper, the rising cost of journalism and their audience is getting older." Reporters and staff will remain in the three cities but the Nottingham Post could move from its base at Castle Wharf. http://www.bbc.co.uk...ngland-15333564 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,593 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 The Lincolnshire Echo is going from a daily paper to a weekly one, (not that there's much in it) Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Apart from chips ( courtesy of the tractor mechanic!)..LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,593 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 And the odd battered mouse (DYA WONT OWT ELSE?) she said wiping tractor grease from her forearms Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 I heard from a friend yesterday, Her husband works for the D*rby Telegraph. There are Job losses, and it is closing. the paper will be printed miles away. DT same group as NP??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Yes, the Derby telegraph is part of the same group. I wonder how long it will be before the price of the Evening post rises due to the extra transport costs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 Went past the Evening Post building on Wilford Road/Canal Street today, and there are big posters in the windows advertising that several floors within the building are For Sale or To Let. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 It gets worse. The appearance of the Nottingham Post website just beggars belief! From today: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 Hadn't looked at it since it changed and became a joke several months ago. This new design seems to vary depending on exactly which page you look at and when. When I was there a few minutes ago I got this - It's increasingly difficult to tell what is news, what is advertising, and what is just pointless rubbish Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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