Comments on: Hartford Courant reverts to more conventional A1 look http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/06/hartford-courant-reverts-to-more-conventional-a1-look/ www.visualeditors.com/apple Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Scott Griffin http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/06/hartford-courant-reverts-to-more-conventional-a1-look/comment-page-1/#comment-32211 Scott Griffin Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:22:17 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/?p=10141#comment-32211 Just got back into town. Took a quick look at the new/newer Courants on the doorstep. I might be wrong, but it looks like 1A is all they changed. Just got back into town. Took a quick look at the new/newer Courants on the doorstep. I might be wrong, but it looks like 1A is all they changed.

]]> By: iBlogWestHartford http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/06/hartford-courant-reverts-to-more-conventional-a1-look/comment-page-1/#comment-32210 iBlogWestHartford Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:13:28 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/?p=10141#comment-32210 I have to admit, the ONLY change to the (now) "old" Courant that I liked was the vertical masthead. It was different, it was unique, it was cool (and honestly, we all KNOW the name of the paper, right?) All the other changes to the design seemed to be about either: 1) Hiding the fact of shrinking content (sorry, can't be done), or 2) Mimicking website design (which just doesn't fly on the printed page, guys.) The blue words at the end of each "Quick Take" scream "Click on me - I'm a hyperlink!" But where's the mouse?? Now the paper looks like something out of the early 1960s. The blue is sickly, passive, Tribune-light. The front page says: "We don't know what direction to take - so we're trying hard to take none at all." And not to get too much into content, but look at what is offered on the sample (which the design, one assumes, is meant to complement): a space-eating photo for a story about a gimmicky TV show; a sports story; ONE genuine "news" story; and a bunch of super-shrunk summaries with dead links, dominated by a space-eating photo (an ad, actually) for a dead TV pitchman. As a Connecticut resident, I'd dearly love to have something more substantial on my porch every morning. I have to admit, the ONLY change to the (now) “old” Courant that I liked was the vertical masthead. It was different, it was unique, it was cool (and honestly, we all KNOW the name of the paper, right?)

All the other changes to the design seemed to be about either:
1) Hiding the fact of shrinking content (sorry, can’t be done), or
2) Mimicking website design (which just doesn’t fly on the printed page, guys.) The blue words at the end of each “Quick Take” scream “Click on me - I’m a hyperlink!” But where’s the mouse??

Now the paper looks like something out of the early 1960s. The blue is sickly, passive, Tribune-light. The front page says: “We don’t know what direction to take - so we’re trying hard to take none at all.”

And not to get too much into content, but look at what is offered on the sample (which the design, one assumes, is meant to complement): a space-eating photo for a story about a gimmicky TV show; a sports story; ONE genuine “news” story; and a bunch of super-shrunk summaries with dead links, dominated by a space-eating photo (an ad, actually) for a dead TV pitchman.

As a Connecticut resident, I’d dearly love to have something more substantial on my porch every morning.

]]> By: Douglas E. Jessmer http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/06/hartford-courant-reverts-to-more-conventional-a1-look/comment-page-1/#comment-32120 Douglas E. Jessmer Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:35:33 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/?p=10141#comment-32120 The nameplate's been tampered with! WHERE'S THE PERIOD? The nameplate’s been tampered with! WHERE’S THE PERIOD?

]]> By: Jim McBee http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/06/hartford-courant-reverts-to-more-conventional-a1-look/comment-page-1/#comment-32099 Jim McBee Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:35:33 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/?p=10141#comment-32099 Straighten up those deck chairs! Straighten up those deck chairs!

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