Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Vice Magazine Beta or Better?

Vice is a magazine that just recently, within the past couple days, revamped their website. They added some unexpected online interactions like a self-updating feed with top, most popular, and latest stories. Users have to option to embed this feed onto their own websites like wordpress or maybe even blogger. There is even a not so appropriate NSFW (not safe for work) tab that classifies all the things that you wouldn't want your boss to see you looking at behind your desk. Thanks for making everyone who looks at Viceland.com no longer worry about scrolling down to see a topless model while you're killing time in a crowded computer lab. The new layout is much more organized and categorized neatly, I'm not familiar with their print publication that comes out monthly, but I can say that they're really stepped up their online game. The slide shows are much more user friendly compared to the old slide shows which were just one photo per page and you had to a click a link for the entire next page to load to see more photos. Even the video content is organized into a slideshow like series, where you can click onto the next video from a string of thumbnails. This site is just generally way more user friendly and interactive. Vice's entire existence is a hybrid of conservative and contemporary in that it presents news like any other site would, but it uses fresh language and often covers stories that well-too-do publications would most often ignore. I selected this site to discuss because in comparison to other more tradition websites, even something as off-beat and sometimes bizarre as Vice is, it still allows itself room for change. It's not so set in its layout to neglect it's online users and is always progressive when it comes to online "do's and don'ts".

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