Cornellgasm Continues Apace: The Sun’s New Look Bombs

by Nick Summers | August 25, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Cornellgasm Continues Apace: The <em>Sun</em>'s New Look Bombs

The Cornell Daily Sun greeted students back to campus yesterday with an overhaul of cornelldailysun.com. Now the reviews are in, and they are ... less than raves. This calls for bullet points, lots of bullet points:

  • "awful"
  • "It doesn't feel like a newspaper"
  • "all [the other Ivy dailies] were more professional looking"
  • "simply terrible"
  • "completely user unfriendly"
  • "major step backwards"
  • "Not looking too good"
  • "Please head over to the COMM department and let them markup what is wrong with the site" [Ed.: Ouch! Our favorite.]
  • "my high school paper's web site looks more professional" [Ed.: Spoke too soon!]
  • "it's lacking!" 

To be fair, there was a lone dissent.

  • "I like it. A lot. Sorry."

We're not quite sure where that leaves the Sun -- the current site is actually a redesign of a redesign. The temporary summer site's logo displeased one commenter, who wrote that the historic nameplate had been "pushed into a slanted murky background ... like some thought that can no longer be recognized as either a dream or a true recollection." Damn, where can we get some of this dude's moonshine?

[UPDATE: The picture's of a cat, people. Being catty. We're firing our photo editor.]

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