Posts Tagged ‘website’

Giant Octopus launches sleek new site

Giant Octopus, the motion graphic design firm, launched a new site in February and slipped under our radar.

The new site is very sleek and polished and has many new examples of work, including a large amount of new international work.

Barrington Broadcasting rolls out new Web design to its stations

Barrington Broadcasting Group has rolled out a new design to 26 station Web sites around the country.

The new design, based heavily off of its previous layout, has a much cleaner look, dropping the different colored news categories.

The new site design was also built heavily around search engine optimization. (more…)

New CNN.com to debut October 24

Via Webnewser, CNN.com will debut a new website and online name in October:

CNN.com Live will change its name and cut the number of hours it streams live video online, WebNewser has been told.

The name change will come on Oct. 24, when the CNN.com site relaunches, according to our source. While it has been decided that CNN.com will be rechristened “CNN,” the new name for CNN.com Live has not been determined.

Giant Octopus “dives in” to new site

Giant Octopus, the Florida based motion graphics firm, has launched a non-flash site that includes a good number of videos and information. Previously, the GO site use to be rarely updated with little usable information. The company has now changed directions and has plans to continue to update the site. Another new site, version 6, is planned for August according to GO’s homepage.

Also featured on GO’s new site is a complete list of Syndicated packages available.

Visit Giant Octopus at giantoctopus.com

615 composes new Web site

615 Music, the Nashville-based news and production music company, has unveiled a new Web site completed with a new branding direction.

The new site’s design is based around their new image of music composers and figures, featuring a bold picture of a score conductor on the homepage from their Score Stage Series. The site retained most of the same content as their old site, with some tweaking still to be done. It appears some old information was reverted to, as some packages are now labeled their previous names.

The site also has more original music samples including over 75 samples of various works from trailer scoring Today show music.

Check out the new site and see if 615 Music is right for you at www.615Music.com

New look for Tribune/Local TV stations

Many Tribune/Local TV stations have begun rolling out new Web sites.

Some Fox affiliates have dumped the MyFOX branding and have begun using a new FoxNow branding. This branding is better for FOX’s and fits its “news now” style. The new sites look much better than the previous sites and are pretty user friendly. To view some examples visit FOX2now or FOX 31 Denver.

The sites feature a large HD video player, lots of easy-to-read top stories with plenty of white space and good advertising placement. Unfortuantly, it appears as if the design team didn’t spend as much time developing the page under the scroll as the top half. Once you get past the picture and features area, it becomes very cluttered.

FoxNews.com relaunched

As first mentioned on WebNewser and Inside Cable News, FoxNews.com has relaunched with a clean new look.

The new site features a very very clean almost subdued look for FOX and features a good amount of cross branding with FOX Business. The site also gives you a detailed look at each nights primetime along with quick links to “features & faces.”

Breaking News also displays easier to read now and is not as annoying as some sites tend to make it. Also the site features big ad blocks on the right hand side of the page, such of which can fly out, causing a road block on the site.

Overall this is a good improvement for Fox News.

ESPN debuts new Web site

At NewscastStudio we like to also cover the sports media, and today major sports news was made. ESPN finally updated its online look with a much more decluttered and modern wWeb interface at ESPN.com. As reported on NewscastStudio in early December, ESPN wanted to “bolster ease-of-use and advertising opportunities” on it’s new website.

“Instead of inundating visitors with its intense coverage of every major sport from the get-go — something that the company now believes can drive away certain fans — ESPN.com is moving in a less-is-more direction, at least on the home page.”

The new ESPN.com allows for greater advertising opportunities and better user customization, so fans get the content they want. Hopefully in the new year, as ad spending shifts around, news stations sites will take notice of the move by ESPN.com and move to a less cluttered website format. Nothing is more distracting on a news website than a content overload.

NBC has tried to combat this with its new O&O sites, which take a much more streamlined approach, but they in comparison are still cluttered with maps and news all over the page and a clunky story rotator. The new ESPN.com in comparison makes it easy to find the sports news you need and creates a big story that you can rotate through easily.