Error page from the ITV website; waggle the mouse and the four coloured blobs on the right jiggle with it. Quite smart.
Shame they couldn't give the Error 404 page a similar design.
All quite quiet on the website front.
My latest thoughts for the site: that MadebyMany should be paid to design a new standardised website layout for show pages etc, with the new adaptive layout seen on the homepage/news sites.
Ideally, maintaining the richness and uniqueness of a show's site features but in a format that is unified.
So all show sites and content pages would move to this new backend system and eventually all pages with the old style deleted.
On a pernickety note it's a shame they've implemented Retina display-compatible graphics on the homepage but not the logo in the header on other pages. The homepage looks incredible on my iPad but the rest of the site not so much.
I also think it's a shame the ITV News website does not include the logo, and a bit more colour matching to the new theme. The teal look would be better using the blue shade IMO, or a mixture as seen throughout the new pres.
Indeed. I hope they're working on improvements to the News site, it could do with a major freshening up since the revamp.
They can do more with the top section, make it vibrant, a bit more interactive with larger images, maybe even top story summary. The ITV News logo ought to appear too.
The fundamentals should stay the same but they just need to pretty it up and more tightly integrate the blue/teal theme whilst retaining the cleanness and simplicity!
The ITV News website celebrates its first birthday
Following the launch of its 24 hour rolling news site in March 2012, ITV News has increased its traffic by six times, achieving a 456% increase in average weekly unique browsers. Highlights include:
- The product achieved a record 3.9 million unique browsers visiting the site in January 2013, up 518% year on year.
- The average number of monthly unique browsers was 2.2 million in 2012 compared with 711,000 in 2011, achieving an uplift of 213% year on year (week 1-52 2011 vs. week 1-52 2012).
- The ITV News site achieved an average of 860,000 weekly unique browsers in 2013 compared with an average of 155,000 in 2012, achieving a 456% increase year on year (week 1-9 2012 vs. week 1-9 2013).
- Following the launch, an average 30% of unique browsers viewed the site from mobiles and tablets in 2012. In 2013, this has grown to an average of 48% indicating that nearly half of all unique browsers are engaging with the site via mobile and tablet devices (week 12-20 2012 vs. week 1-9 2013).
The news site, which is optimised for use on mobiles and tablets, is packed with broadcast quality video bringing real-time rolling news to the public in a brand new slick and efficient digital product.
Julian March, Director of Online at ITV said: “When we launched the improved digital offering for ITV News last year, we aimed to create a vast 24 hour news gathering machine packed with breaking news content and exclusives from award winning journalists. We are incredibly excited that the site has been welcomed by millions and we look forward to continuing to work on the site to bring real-time news to the digital age.”
The site was created in partnership with digital innovation and service design experts Made by Many.