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March 4, 2009 7:06am by David Farrar

New Stuff

Fairfax has upgraded the Stuff website. A catchy fresh look, and some extra functionality with customisation.

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OECD rank 22 kiwi

Always fun to play “find what you’re looking for” with a new site design. In the case of “Stuff” the blogs are spread all over the show.
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March 4, 2009 7:10am
Frank

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March 4, 2009 7:29am
KiwiGreg

I dont like change.
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March 4, 2009 7:49am
expat

The Hawkes Bay news is now hidden here http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hawkes-bay//

Sort eet Stuff!
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March 4, 2009 7:54am
getstaffed

Has a Herald’esq feel to it.

I wonder if loading the homepage on my iPhone still costs $3?
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March 4, 2009 8:03am
Michaels

Don’t like it from the quick look I had.
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March 4, 2009 8:31am
Peter Manglethwaite

It totally looks like, and has the same features as the Salient site launched two weeks ago that was designed by Catch Design… cept salient.org.nz is way better!
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March 4, 2009 8:33am
aardvark

Now, if only the content was as good (or well-funded) as the packaging eh?

For get the steak, listen to the sizzle!

Another example of how the focus has gone off good journalism and accurate reporting in favour of pretty presentation and fluff.

I never liked the old Stuff and this really doesn’t seem to change my opinions.
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March 4, 2009 8:41am
Fairfacts Media

Fairfacts is also upgrading his website.
I promise you some good ‘stuff’ there.
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March 4, 2009 8:57am
senzafine

Its Ugly.
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March 4, 2009 8:59am
g_

I looked at Stuff for about 5 seconds this morning, saw the new design, then left. Fairfax have a lot of money and they waste it on a crappy design. Also tried going to http://www.stuff.co.nz on my mobile to see if they had created a decent mobile version but alas all I got was an error as the page size was too big.
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March 4, 2009 9:16am
lofty

It’s a bit like, never mind the quality, feel the width.
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March 4, 2009 9:24am
TimG_Oz

Looks like theage.com.au or smh.com.au

Fairfax are going down the tubes (mainly due to a failed attempt to make money from biased media). They are probably streamlining a lot of the content out of Australia. Here they are a bit of a joke at the moment.
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March 4, 2009 9:24am
NoCash

I don’t like the new look. It used to be very compact not needing to scroll too much and the blog links were easy to get to. Now… too much empty space, things are too spaced out.
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March 4, 2009 9:43am
philu

a quizz for kiwiblog lounge lizards..

which international newspaper website is the ‘new’ stuff design a direct lift from..?

(hey..!..maybe it’s just coincidence/’synergy’..eh..?..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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March 4, 2009 10:45am
ngaruna

Whoa! thems some pretty drastic changes there – obviously Fairfax saw no need for gradual integration. People don’t respond well to change, we are creatures of habit. Trying to process change of such magnitude is just going to piss people off. They’ve removed the ‘Newspaper’ tab where you could find your local rag making the site very urban-centric which won’t go down well in the smaller regions. I like the new look it’s very clean crisp but have an issue with companies who release a new version of a product that doesn’t work as well as the old one.
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March 4, 2009 10:49am
MT_Tinman

I like it better than it’s predecessor but not much.

It appears Fairfax once again are trying to get a universal look to all their newspaper based sites.
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March 4, 2009 11:29am
Alan Wilkinson

It doesn’t work with Chrome. Gives and “access denied” error
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March 4, 2009 12:07pm
Viking2

Don’t like it. Happy with the old one.
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March 4, 2009 12:39pm
philu

you get less information/headlines .. in more space..

..each category only has four stories..

..thereby they hope to drive you to further click on the categories..

..a pox on them..

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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March 4, 2009 12:45pm
Nigel Kearney

Is it just me or are all links to stuff from before the change now invalid?
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