Visual Editors

Simon Waldman reveals in his blog today that the home page for The Guardian has been revamped and design guru Mark Porter explains this is just the first glimpse at the media house’s new thinking about graphical user interfaces (GUI).

Editor-in-chief Emily Bell explains:

The wider pages allow us to feature more news and different, dramatic layouts as the news agenda changes throughout the day - we will not be wedded to the fixed story and picture positions of more conventional sites - and we want to offer users the best possible gateway into the full depth of our award-winning content.

Mark Porter adds:

Improvements in web browsers and computer screens mean that we can now offer a wider page than before, giving us a larger canvas and therefore more readable text, bigger and better photographs, and space to show video.

Check out the new Guardian Unlimited home page and tell us what you think.

ANOTHER REDESIGN
NEWSVINE has scrapped it’s old home page efforts to adopt one based on the Netbvibes model of a modular approach to design that puts the user in control of the layout of nearly every element on the page.

Mike Davidson explains via e-mail

Want your original Newsvine content at the bottom and your New York Times stories at the top? No problem. Want twice as many headlines? Also not a problem. If you can drag and drop, you can design your own front page in a matter of seconds.