{"id":132,"date":"2005-10-30T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T11:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2005-11-04T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T22:20:03","slug":"smh-website-redesign-pleeeeease-dont-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"SMH website redesign &#8211; pleeeeease don&#8217;t do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"78\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/smh_masthead_logo.gif\" alt=\"image: Fairfax Publications\" title=\"image: Fairfax Publications\" \/>Fairfax is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/technology\/hot-news-website-has-a-focus-on-fun\/2005\/10\/29\/1130400400736.html\">upselling the release<\/a> of a redesigned layout for the online version of the Sydney Morning Herald:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Click onto the hot news website where the focus is on fun<\/strong><br \/> By Daniel Dasey<br \/> October 30, 2005<br \/> The Sun-Herald<\/p>\n<p> Readers of The Sun-Herald will have access to detailed information on Sydney&#8217;s best films, bars and restaurants and enjoy enhanced news coverage under a full redesign of the paper&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p> For a decade the joint Sun-Herald and Sydney Morning Herald website, http:\/\/www.smh.com.au, has provided readers with quality news coverage sourced from the print edition of the papers and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p> Its new look is being unveiled on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If the online <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\">SMH<\/a> winds up looking like the new layout for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/\">The Age<\/a>, I really wish they wouldn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>yaaarrrrrgh.<\/p>\n<p> -weez&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">UPDATE:<\/font> They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">did<\/a> it- and it looks just like The Age. Navigational nightmare. Double yaaarrrrrgh.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairfax pitches its kicky new layout for SMH.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}