The great Gawker suicide.

Among my many sins is 15+ years of working with HTML and developing websites.
My approach to a website is not unique in that my first priority is ALWAYS usability. I'll wireframe, layout a site 10-15 times over, have that critiqued and then go to coding one of them. It's important to make an attractive site but no matter how good it looks usability is King. Especially when the good you are selling is information and your site is now making it harder to access said information.

Go check out the redesign for Gawker. Click here. Go! I'll wait.

Still waiting...

See! SEE! That's what I'm talking about!


Now that's what one would call all flash and no substance. It's barely usable, I'm sure it'll up the number of ad exposures for them because it now requires 70 clicks to go through a days worth of posts.

I've not checked Gizmodo or Lifehacker today. The layout just makes my teeth grind. I'm assuming their UI guy was kidnapped and is being held at an undisclosed location, I can't think of any other explanation.