Thursday, July 30, 2009

New 3News Site

3News has a new site which launched today. Its ok. It’s a news site.

They took away the skyscraper from the entire 3News.co.nz site. Not a one to be found. Awesome. Killed a schedule I had had signed off. That’s ok, I’m sure the Herald appreciated the budget.

Site doesn’t work properly in Chrome. What a surprise. In Firefox it looks like this:

But looks like this in Chrome:
Photos in middle column – pixels
Weather – fallen back and kinda disappeared
Search – freaks out and certainly doesn’t work (which seems weird as they use google as their search engine.)

I know I go on about this, but I love Chrome, it is a great browser. I don’t want to change to suit other people; they should change to work in with me please.

(Might be a little bolshie today, so far this week everything has gone my way, why can’t this continue? Huh?)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

My fav is the bottom... 'best viewed in FFX' what happened to designing for everyone?

davesparks said...

Chrome is my favourite too!

Surely they could've fitted a sky option in there. Big banner - who does that these days!?! Trez Passe!

Anonymous said...

The pixel thing wasn't just happening in Chrome - the scroll thingee's now gone, probably getting fixed.

And did you ever launch a site as massive as 3 news perfectly on the first day without any bugs?

iChild said...

Indeed Dave, I am anti-big (or top for that matter) banner too.

10:38pm Anon - You're right, I have never launched a site as massive as 3News perfectly, because that's not my job so...

Sisyphus said...

Hehe, as an Opera user for over a decade now I've gotten used to a continuous stream of broken websites. The real shame is that people are still stuck in the mindset of 'we will support these browsers' as opposed creating a standards compliant site.

Dave said...

This blog is delicious....

iChild said...

It sure is delicious. As delicious as mango margaritas.