24sata.hr goes non-standards
24sata, the first Croatian news portal ever designed with web standards was moved from carefully structured, web standards compliant to a non-valid inaccessible web site. Unfortunately, it does happen.
When we were developing the first incarnation, we learned a lot about Mac browsers and also introduced Faux borders, the advanced CSS positioning concept, which after that became widely recognized. When the original version of the site was launched back in March 2005, we already had significant amount of CSS trials, errors and solutions for future projects development. Working on such a project was invaluable experience.
I won’t comment on the new design, interface, IA or user experience in general. Instead, we’ve snapped a few screen shots for the archive. If you care, take a look at high-resolution shots. See the new site.
Old site
New site
17 Comments
Who’s the author of the new page? Did the 24sata management wanted the new site to be as awful (design & code vise) as this one or is it just the sites author fault? Anyway, the old site was much, much better & it’s a shame that they’ve degraded to this, almost amateur level, site…
Comment (#) by Mario Baricevic — 18th May 2007.
Really a shame. Too bad their traffic won’t be at least affected - their visitors are used to worse. Otherwise they would have learn a lesson.
Comment (#) by Mislav — 18th May 2007.
Oops … “have learned a lesson” :)
Comment (#) by Mislav — 18th May 2007.
Dissapointing to say the least. 24sata or who ever was responsible for this re-design have got it really wrong. As far as I am concerned its a massive step back from the previous site.
What were they thinking about????
Comment (#) by medo — 18th May 2007.
I think the previous version was trully what XHTML and CSS is for - great graphic, great code. It was beautiful in design and you could learn a lot from looking the code. I saw this new version a few days ago and didn’t like it - I tought who designed it?
Comment (#) by Emanuel — 19th May 2007.
Whoever designed it made the mistake of trying to create a layout that is just not suited for the web. It is not a very good idea and it is not well executed. Hopefully the beta will never go live.
I have to note that the current 24sata is visually the best news portal in Croatia. Although, the recently added ads don’t do the site any favors in the visual department. I agree with Emanuel, you can learn a lot from studying the code of the site.
Comment (#) by Bojan — 19th May 2007.
Looks like the beta is only live on 24sata.com. 24sata.hr still has the orginal web.burza design.
Temporary or can’t they make their minds up?
Comment (#) by medo — 19th May 2007.
Sad :(. I believe they tried to mimic the regular newspaper behavior with the new design, but I don’t think that kind of architecture is appropriate for a large news site like 24sata. I have to agree that 24sata.hr was (and still is) one of the best examples of a usable, clean CSS-based design in Croatia, and probably beyond.
The new portal is still in development, so we could see some surprises, although I’m not that optimistic in that matter :).
Comment (#) by Nikola — 20th May 2007.
I can imagine what does means to you, as you guys @ web.burza put so much effort in that project. Of course, your version was superb over this, as Bojan nicely noticed, wanna be paper design like web.
But for the people outside Croatia reading this, I think it’s worth explaining that the 24 sata (24 hours) is a yellow daily magazine which I personally dislike a lot - with that kind of “journalism", short stupid texts, little no worth mentioning affairs, you’ll get stupid people. So, for me, the fact that they had a damm good site is the thing that surprised me then when you published it, not this new one that has design and code closer to the design and content of the magazine (which is, as I said it, crXp).
Sad but true…
Comment (#) by sale — 21st May 2007.
Sadly the web.burza version is no more. The cr*** version is now online. I could not resist to write them my opinion about the “new” version.
I could not find who built such a site. Curious to se their other “works".
It’s like the disney.co.uk store Andy Clarke version that has been replaced by a nonstandars version (Of mice and men)
Comment (#) by Hrvoje — 21st May 2007.
OMFG.
I’ve found this nice explanation about new design on their “beta” website.
“Na portalu se ne može scrollati! Sav sadržaj nalazi se uvijek u jednom ekranu. Sve naslovnice rubrika, svi članci, fotogalerije i video clipovi. Svi su u jednom ekranu! Dakle, to znači da se cijeli tekst može pročitati bez dodatnih pokreta mišom.”
There are simply no words for wasting such a magnificient design (instead of working on it and improving it over the time) and then do all this just to save me some scrolling and mouse usage - which is highly unlikely to happen EVER.
Oh my.
Comment (#) by Sinisa Dukaric — 22nd May 2007.
OMG! This must be for you like watching your arms being ripped apart by a grenade! I know how I would feel mate.
Btw, my first tought was that 24.hr went completely Flash. Kiosk ready mode. :) But then I viewed source… OMG ^ 2
Comment (#) by guycalledseven — 22nd May 2007.
The new site is great. It’s a merge between TV and newspaper. This is exactly what the web should be about. Little copy and lot of images and videos. I like the layout too. Congrats to the creators!
Comment (#) by advertising archive — 23rd May 2007.
Everything is alredy said, they have made a huge mistake. The sad thing is that they are not aware of that.
What a stupid move backwards!
Comment (#) by monkey — 23rd May 2007.
@ADVERTISING ARCHIVE:
Dude, you missed the point, completely :)
Comment (#) by Sinisa Dukaric — 23rd May 2007.
Darn… Even me could do better looking site than this new one and I am no good.
Comment (#) by KRESO — 10th June 2007.
Guyz, forgetting that any product such as web site is made for users, not geeks??
I happen to know that their official unique users count went 20 to 30 % up since the new site was introduced. Need anything more?
“Advertising Archive", couldn’t agree more with you, seems you got the point.
Comment (#) by fiju briju — 5th August 2007.
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