The Daily Nebraskan recently switched from College Publisher to TownNews, and along with the switch, a redesign. Here’s the new site: #

#

And here’s their redesign from 2011: #

#

Dan Shattil notes in an e-mail: “We’re still tweaking it but it allowed us to post a Tom Osborne Legacy section we developed last night following the Athletic Director’s announcement yesterday of his retirement. This includes an interactive timeline the staff created last night.” #

The black “white space” is a definite contrast, and again, there’s an emphasis on more graphics on the page. Multimedia is also prominent near the top of the page. One thing I’m not necessarily a fan of is putting an advertising banner between the site header and the content. We debated that at the DEN when we redesigned last year. The TownNews CMS allows a lot of “tweaking” within the confines of the overall site design, so it will be interesting to see how the site evolves as they get more time to experiment. #

Print Friendly