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rob Founding member 1 July 2008 7:33am

http://www.sky.com/news is not working, although http://news.sky.com is and it directs to the new site.

Edit - www.sky.com/news is back online, but showing the current site.

2nd Edit - www.sky.com/news is now showing the new site.

BR

breakingnews 1 July 2008 4:10pm

Do not like Sky's new website at all. Very cheap looking and sensationalist.

JW

JamesWorldNews 1 July 2008 4:39pm

breakingnews posted:

Do not like Sky's new website at all. Very cheap looking and sensationalist.

What???? Sky News???? Cheap looking and sensationalist???????? How dare you! Wash your mouth out with soap and water, my man!

(LOL)

BR

breakingnews 1 July 2008 4:55pm

But this one is Particularly sensationalist and tacky. All bling but not info.

LO

lobster 1 July 2008 6:05pm

anybody notice that the rss feeds are now broken on the new site?

GI

gillw72 1 July 2008 9:12pm

The carousel on the sky news homepage looks remarkably similar to the one on the ITV F1 site

http://www.itv-f1.com/home.aspx

LO

Londoner 2 July 2008 1:28pm

They've also discontinued the iPhone interface.

BC

Blake Connolly Founding member 2 July 2008 4:53pm

bilky asko posted:

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Connews posted:

They sure like capitals on the Sky News beta site, indeed on Sky's live site, I challenge you to find a headline which does not have a capital at the beginning of every word. Incredibly Bad English From Sky.

I was always taught at school that beginning words with capitals in a title was the correct thing to do.

As with so many things taught at school - it's a half-truth at best. For headlines, it's more common (in the UK at least) to use sentence case.

It's all depends on the House Style of the company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#How_to_capitalize

Very rarely used for headlines in the UK though. Much more common in American broadsheet newspapers, where the headlines are capitalised, boring, and often a grammatical mess.

LO

lobster 2 July 2008 7:23pm

reading on the sky news discussions, it would seem that everybody is dissatisfied with the new layout. it is really is a mess. it's sluggish too, all that video loading seems to slow the whole server down. perhaps they'll have a rethink.

JP

jpeg987 2 July 2008 7:32pm

Dr Lobster* posted:

reading on the sky news discussions, it would seem that everybody is dissatisfied with the new layout. it is really is a mess. it's sluggish too, all that video loading seems to slow the whole server down. perhaps they'll have a rethink.

Well at least it is in following with the TV channel.....as in a shadow of its former self.

JO

Joe 2 July 2008 8:18pm

jpeg987 posted:

Dr Lobster* posted:

reading on the sky news discussions, it would seem that everybody is dissatisfied with the new layout. it is really is a mess. it's sluggish too, all that video loading seems to slow the whole server down. perhaps they'll have a rethink.

Well at least it is in following with the TV channel.....as in a shadow of its former self.

Well it was hardly my number one source of news before. Far from it.

FO

fodg09 7 July 2008 9:06pm

Sky.Com News now 5 days a week

http://blogs.news.sky.com/skycomnews/Post:3bb5a545-4d9d-4b04-b8a8-1d542bf03808

(April 2008)