New Times site live at www.thetimes.co.uk now. Like it a lot; v clean. Don't see me paying for it, mind.
― stet, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Love the fact that everything except the homepage - even the blogs - is behind the paywall.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Georgia for the main text doesn't look great. But other than that the design looks really good - much better than the Guardian redesign.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Paywall still has a handy side-door where you can just reach over and flip the latch at timesonline.co.uk. James Murdoch probably nagging his dad to get it fixed right now.
― ketchup scam (useless chamber), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
It's free (with registration) for a month I think, while the main times site is still running, then the paywall goes up.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Georgia for the main text doesn't look great.
Strongly disagree as I am a huge Georgia stan.
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Georgia as a general font for when I'm writing, but not really for this somehow. It's a bit skeletal looking to my eye.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, in general it's gorgeous. There's something very calming about it, very balanced. Maybe the best newspaper front page on the web?
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
In a world where the content is irrelevant
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I also like how prominent the leader articles are. More newspaper sites should do that.
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh the numbers in the bottom-left "Most Read" box need a bit of alignment...
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Love Georgia also. Some daft use of Flash, including the graphic above the leaders.
― stet, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Ohhhh the hands on the clock move??!
That is pretty cool, though you could do that with SVG...
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
'If paywall doesn't work I'm in the shit', admits News Int's commercial chief
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 08:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star has indicated that he wants to buy the Sun newspaper.Richard Desmond told the BBC he had £1bn to spend and that he was keen to add to his stable of titles which includes the celebrity magazine OK!He said he would run the Sun, which is Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, in a manner that was "more efficient in today's market place".
Richard Desmond told the BBC he had £1bn to spend and that he was keen to add to his stable of titles which includes the celebrity magazine OK!
He said he would run the Sun, which is Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, in a manner that was "more efficient in today's market place".
― James Mitchell, Friday, 4 June 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y9R7_4I-yLk/SmrFTEM_lYI/AAAAAAAAAK8/IOwrylaQtVU/s320/Dinosaur+Jr.jpg
― Mark G, Friday, 4 June 2010 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
So not gonna happen. I can't see Murdoch selling The Sun.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 June 2010 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link
given that the daily star is a clone of the sun - the last redesign brief copied all their fonts with, i think, the hope that people would buy the star by mistake - it wouldn't make sense for desmond either: he'd have to merge them. but yeah, i assume he's just winding up the murdochs.
― joe, Friday, 4 June 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Attention sub-editors
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 June 2010 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
massive lol
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
It's on Press Gazette as well. Genuine production howler.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 June 2010 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Dewey Defeats headghgh
― real eyes realize real truffle fries (dyao), Friday, 4 June 2010 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link
headline headghgh in topless bar
― joe, Friday, 4 June 2010 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"We Wgfgfgfg"
(It'll be on Have I got News for you, doubtless)
― Mark G, Friday, 4 June 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
ah: "The error comes as journalists across Johnston Press mull group-wide strike action in protest against staffing levels and the introduction of the Atex production system.
"Press Gazette understands that Atex, which allows reporters to input stories directly on to page layouts, has been introduced across Johnston Press titles in the south of England."
― joe, Friday, 4 June 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://editorial.jpress.co.uk/Includes/Images/BTJ/front-bed22.gif
fwiw
― nakhchivan, Friday, 4 June 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
who do you believe? the bedford time and citizen's website or your own lying eyes?
― joe, Friday, 4 June 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/xIC0G.png
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
News Sharter?
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link
*creature harbours grudge against blodes
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
LOLLLLLL, blondes
"News Shower" is very Morris-esque.
― I'm being a smartass here, but in a fun way (NotEnough), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
It's actually the News Shopper, ahem, paper of record in Lewisham & Catford.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Have you noticed issues with crows?
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
It's only ever guns, crows and crack these days.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't forget the foxes. Animals be fighting back.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Crow update: http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8208903.CATFORD__Elderly_dancer_reveals_crow_attack_horror/
― Will toss in some pants too! (useless chamber), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/images/1323867/
keen dancer and former actress, you say
― I wonder if heaven got a Netto (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
she's no tipi hedren
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
She's Edna Lunt
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
from IMDB
Edna Lunt:Letters of Service (2004) .... Dancing Patient
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
omg terrifying my gf is a blonde Lewisham/Catford jogger. I know someone who'll be getting a hard hat for her next birthday.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Heard magpies do this all the time in Australia, and that they have to wear special hats.... hang on a sec, this might be a dream...
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
No, it's not.
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Erk, just read about the Mirror cutting a third of its staff. Dark times. Though I guess it's lost, what, half its readers during the past 10 or 15 years?
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
press gazette says a quarter of the staff of the mirror, the smirror and the people? made £70m profit last year as well per NUJ. what a bunch of cunts. newspapers shouldn't be plcs.
― joe, Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
This was kind of worrying/a blow too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/10278700.stm My friends who work for DC Thompson are based at the other site, but it doesn't bode well, I guess. Also not that many companies that still print their own magazines etc., I think.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
The crow attack story really belongs in the "Stuff that looks like the Onion" thread
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 June 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
A STUNNED mum nearly choked on her favourite chocs - after she found one shaped like a WILLY.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01065/sna1523choc280_1065094a.jpg
Last night a Cadbury's spokesman said: "It appears some of the Nibbles have melted."We will of course offer a full refund if the consumer is unhappy."
"We will of course offer a full refund if the consumer is unhappy."
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link