The triumph of text. (newspaper design on the World Wide Web)
Nieman Reports, September, 1998 by Regan, Tom
I'm not very good at prognostication, although I have had my moments. I predicted in January of 1992 that Bill Clinton would become president. (I have witnesses, I swear.) I predicted that the Denver Broncos would win last year's Super Bowl. And I predicted that the next big design tool in on-line media sites would be text.
That's right, text. `Words. Not snazzy javascript rollovers, not nifty live video and not dazzling Shockwave multi-media presentations, although all of the above certainly do have their place in a good on-line media site. The proof is in the pudding, so to speak. Witness the recent redesigns of three of the Web's biggest on-line newspaper sites: The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Washington Post. All three have abandoned a...
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