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I don't normally do a lot of surfing at the major news sites. I get most of my news through a combination of an aggregator, Google News, and Yahoo headlines, but when I saw the link to FOXNews from Spoons I had to check it out. I have to go with the majority on this one, if it’s not the worst site design EVER it's certainly up there.
I've been bemoaning the changes in site design going on at ESPN for awhile, and the FOXNews site makes ESPN look sleek. It's not just the horrible hodgepodge of images, stories, frames, and ads just thrown together... well actually it's mostly that. Now I realize that I'm not a professional web designer or anything, but there is something to be said for simplicity. If you are a major news organization and people aren't able to even find the story that they are looking for, you have issues. Add to that the fact that your page looks like something that belongs on Geocities and your setting yourself up for a world of hurt.
(Ed Note: Instead of linking to the Geocities main page I was going to link to a Geocities website displaying some of the horrible design decisions that are similar to the FOXNews page, but in my admittedly quick perusal there were none that were worse than the page Fox put up. So congratulations again to FOXNews for a really horrible design. )
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