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ChineseOMG… Metro Launches New Metro.net
Added on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I know I just said I was officially on hiatus, but then I logged on to Metro.net today…
OMG. WTF.
I’ve known for a while that Metro was in the process of revamping their website. From what I hear they hired an outside web firm to help them out. Well, I hope they didn’t pay too much. (Update 12:13pm 7/16/08 - I just got word that this new homepage was done in house, not through an outside firm.)
The homepage has been completely redesigned visually, and for the worse, yet the functionality remains largely the same. The most noticible difference is that the content area is significantly larger, in fact everything seems to be bigger and bolder. This is not neccessarily a bad thing, but it certainly looks less sophisticated than the previous design. Some absolutely hideous gradients and drop shadows are thrown in with the effect of not only making it look less sophisticated, but making me want to close my browser window immediately. Metro also took a cue from MetroRiderLA by changing the header color randomly with each reload of the page.
