RE: UKNM: New design of ft.com

[Sholto Ramsay]

I was extremely disappointed by the office area whose tools cannot compare 

with those provided by Yahoo and other portals. For example the calendar 

cannot be reconciled with a Palm or Outlook which is makes it worthless in 

my view. I find it hard to believe that anybody will use the office part, 

and those that do will quickly migrate to better services.

Elsewhere the site has tons of good touches let down by poor detail and 

implementation. For example the navigation bar requires that you click on 

each possible option to see what the option means: yet everywhere else on 

the web, navigation syntax is such that clicking on something takes you 

somewhere and seeing options are rollovers. So if you put the mouse over 

"people" nothing happens until you click. The first time I thought it was 

broken.

The search facilities are excellent and clearly marked, but after getting 

company quotes you could be given broker recommendations at the same time 

rather than having to do more navigation.

It will interesting to see if in 6 months time it has some life to it (like 

motley fool) or has seen off the challenge of breakingviews.com.

Meanwhile Real Life seems to have disappeared. Where will I find Lucy 

kellaway now?


To my mind it still owes the wrong qualities to the newspaper. It needs to 

shake off the newspaper and become much more vibrant and peopled. Mix 

Silicon, Motley Fool and Last Minute..... that is what is needed.


Sholto Ramsay

sholtopobox [dot] com

Freeserve Auctions


-----Original Message-----

From:	Tricia [SMTP:

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Sent:	16 February 2000 09:37

To:

'uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

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Subject:	UKNM: New design of ft.com


As we've already mulled over the design of boo...


FT.com completely revamped their site this week- now has bulletin

boards, its own email and other office tools, career advice, as well as

a 'time off' portal where you can buy travel tickets, book restaurants,

plan entertainment online.


What do we all think of the new navigation and features compared to the

old version?


Tricia


Tricia Tomiyoshi-Marsom

Gnash Communications

5 Lambton Place

London

W11 2SH

tel 0171 243 4443

fax 0171 243 4442



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