The Guardian introduced its new home page today, and you won't be shocked to find it has the same sort of look as our Comment Is Free blogging arena. There are still lots of sections that have not been switched over, including Technology and this blog, but that's just a matter of time....
Emily Bell introduced the new look on our News blog and Mark Porter, who led the design effort, has commented in Guardian Unlimited -- the new look explained.
For me, the most surprising thing is that we've kept the logo with contrasting type styles, which is different from the printed newspaper's current lower-case masthead. Since I think the GU logo looks a lot better, I'm very happy about that.
Update: There's some more technical information on the new design in two posts by Guardian Unlimited's Nik Silver. A new Travel site, and four uses for tags, posted in November, is about the GU Travel site, which was a precursor and test bed. Yesterday (Thursday), Nik posted Guardian Unlimited's new look: Some background on templating and the use of Apache Velocity. Incidentally, while the new GU Front has taken a beating in comments, Emily Bell reports that the user numbers for the Travel site have shown a substantial increase. And this is one of those cases where numbers speak louder than words.
