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mkenyan
#41 Posted : Sunday, August 18, 2013 10:48:29 AM
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alma wrote:
Just looked at it...lol hadn't before.

Enyewe comparing it to USA today is rather unfair to the developers of USA today.

Someone forgot this was a newspaper, not a two man blog with few resources for a good designer. They should have had a bigger budget for their website to be honest. coz whatever it was, it wasn't enough.

There is too much white space on the site. Spaces everywhere.
No sence of form or structure. One block of content overrides another block of content.

sure you want to get more from advertising but those ad placements are annoying to say the least. Compare the ads on usa today.

As for the megamenu being bragged about as being different, thats a $10 script in 2013.

The saving grace is that Nation is a brand. So this shouldn't affect them in the short run. But its annoying to think that the standard design is better. lol Ok its not....

If someone had tried it on their own blog, they'd definately have lost traffic. Lakini tutazoea tu or someone will create something better than that design and we shall move in droves. News is news you know.

for a player in the web/Internet industry your reaction is perplexing. several websites have been moving towards the responsive design which nation is attempting here. and in fact several like seen in the usatoday above and arsenal.com have been moving towards the blog look. would like to see links to your websites.
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Njung'e
#42 Posted : Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:03:47 AM
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The older version was by far much better organised.I can't find my way around here and i have given up.Ama ni uzee?
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Siringi
#43 Posted : Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:06:23 AM
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Come to think of it I have noted some improvements today and the Huge font could be a plus. Home page donge?

Have they decided to have independent pages for the various other cos in the group. Previousl you could just click and move among the other publications easily not so now.!

They new interns may turn out not to be too bad after all. Change doesn't gain acceptability easily
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symbols
#44 Posted : Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:13:59 AM
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kryptonite wrote:
symbols wrote:
Siringi wrote:
Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you pisha hodi kwanza are you a socquet am blug?Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly


Circle Digital wrote:
We are Circle Digital Ltd, designers of the new Nation Website.

We are very grateful for all feedback, positive and negative. We are taking everything into consideration and working around the clock to address bug fixes. We appreciate that there have been challenges.

We would like to specifically reject the allegation that the new site is a copy of the USA Today site. Consider for instance the navigation of that site Vs Nation. Or the use of a slider on USA Today that is not present on Nation site.

We appreciate that there are challenges, but the integrity and originality of the work is intact.

Please keep constructive comment coming.




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washiku
#45 Posted : Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:41:38 PM
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symbols wrote:
kryptonite wrote:
symbols wrote:
Siringi wrote:
Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you pisha hodi kwanza are you a socquet am blug?Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly


Circle Digital wrote:
We are Circle Digital Ltd, designers of the new Nation Website.

We are very grateful for all feedback, positive and negative. We are taking everything into consideration and working around the clock to address bug fixes. We appreciate that there have been challenges.

We would like to specifically reject the allegation that the new site is a copy of the USA Today site. Consider for instance the navigation of that site Vs Nation. Or the use of a slider on USA Today that is not present on Nation site.

We appreciate that there are challenges, but the integrity and originality of the work is intact.

Please keep constructive comment coming.




Laughing out loudly


Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

Wazua is a shark tank


SnapLaughing out loudly


Lol...the (in)famous "I am out" comes to mind. But tutazoea tu. Remember the way we made noise on SK to Wazua migration? But hei hei...here we are. Many years later.
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Wakanyugi
#46 Posted : Monday, August 19, 2013 12:28:02 AM
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Circle Digital wrote:
We are Circle Digital Ltd, designers of the new Nation Website.

We are very grateful for all feedback, positive and negative. We are taking everything into consideration and working around the clock to address bug fixes. We appreciate that there have been challenges.

We would like to specifically reject the allegation that the new site is a copy of the USA Today site. Consider for instance the navigation of that site Vs Nation. Or the use of a slider on USA Today that is not present on Nation site.

We appreciate that there are challenges, but the integrity and originality of the work is intact.

Please keep constructive comment coming.



Personally I think your new offering is terrible. What happened to the easy links to the other products in the 'Nation' stable?

But, with tyranny of money and all, I assume your are not going to listen, despite what you write above. So I am resigned to finding my news elsewhere.

In the meantime some free advice on that black hole you call 'Discus.' Can you fix it so that every time a comment is rejected, a message to that effect is posted, perhaps with reasons why.

This way we shall know you are not nurturing journalistic impunity.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
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Gordon Gekko
#47 Posted : Monday, August 19, 2013 1:56:49 AM
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Njung'e wrote:
The older version was by far much better organised.I can't find my way around here and i have given up.Ama ni uzee?


Im having major issues with the new site. I usually read the paper from the nation twitter account but since the new site, all twitter hyperlinks default to the home page. And is it just my uzee or does the site carry only ten articles? The font is however great.
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vky
#48 Posted : Monday, August 19, 2013 9:46:39 AM
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utter crap
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brightstar
#49 Posted : Monday, August 19, 2013 10:00:36 AM
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Totally horrible. Looks like it was designed by a class 4 pupil.
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kryptonite
#50 Posted : Monday, August 19, 2013 10:30:17 AM
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@Circle Digital Ltd

Please increase the black in the body copy text (my suggestion, bump it up to 65%-75% black). Right now it's too light and disconcerting to look at. Yes, I know about the study that shows grey is easier on the eyes when viewed on computer and mobile device screens.

I notice change of typeface to san serif from the original launch version, love it! Instant improvement!
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