Radio-Canada is publicizing a beta version of its redesigned news homepage, and is asking people what they think of it. Comparing it with the previous version, and you see the main story is much more prominent, there are some colour changes, and elements are rearranged, but there’s little else to speak of (except, perhaps, the “Error processing SSI file” messages I keep seeing).
This comes on the heels of its new Zone Musique site.
Those front page story blurbs could use, um, a shitload of leading. Readability, anyone?
It’s an improvement.
Radio-Canada seems to have better graphic designers than its English counterpart; at least, I’ve always thought so in comparing CBC Television to La télévision de Radio-Canada, and CBC Newsworld to RDI. Now it’s starting to translate to its website too!