Now I know it doesn’t have as much content as the NYT, but don’t you wish that more news sites looked like Gapers Block? Would you ever have a problem going to a beautiful site like that to catch up on what is happening today? Hell, wouldn’t you go back to check even more just because of the pleasant design? We are forced to go somewhere if we want our news and that is what is keeping these horrible news sites alive.

Redesigning And Re-Thinking The News | Drawar

Stuff like this makes me really nervous about the redesign we’ve been working on. I mean, yeah, Naz did an amazing job designing Gapers Block, and I’m forever in his debt for that, but we need to improve it nonetheless. Our interior content is not well displayed on the front page. We need to add more advertising space to the front page (we don’t really want to, but it’s a necessity). It’s not terribly useful on a mobile device (though that’s not something we’ll address in the redesign, unfortunately.)

As great as the site is, there are problems to address. As we work on a redesign, the challenge is to not ruin the beauty of what we have.