The Escapist is a web site I visit quite often. I return so much because of two shows. One of which is a video game review show called Zero Punctuation where the reviewer, Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, reviews a game in a manner that sounds like a long run-on sentence. Though this would sound annoying, he does well at keeping it entertaining. The other is a show called Unskippable were two guys watch the opening cut sense of video games that can’t be skipped and crack jokes about what’s going on. These show keep me coming back but if they weren’t on the site I probably wouldn’t. The page is cramped. It use to be much cleaner, but as the site became more popular the design changed to fit everything on the home page. The easiest way to clean up the site is if they didn’t show off so much on the main page. If it were to just show off the newest thing of the other pages instead of the newest 5, the home page would be much cleaner. I’m still going to go back but thats because the shows help me tolerate the layout.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/
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News sites, like this one and like the ones the local news channels use, drive me crazy simply because they are way too crowded. These site designers have stopped believing in the power of negative space. Too much text can be as bad as too much white space, and designers need to find a balance between the two.
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