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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by walshemj on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @08:23PM (#5372216)
its old school publishers who often have very little idea what they are doing and have sclerotic development processes 9 week sprints! in one case.

One site I worked on did not manage to sort out a redirect of its .net version of its domain and its over 2 Years since a flagged this as a high priority problem.

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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by lchang on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @08:31PM (#5372276)
Yes, but the New York Times employs top-notch webdevs.

See http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/ and http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

So they have the skills, but maybe it's for other reasons they don't follow those practices.

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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by pinwale on Thursday March 14, 2013 @01:00AM (#5373186)
The New York Times built the current site in 2006. The Times just announced that they have are working on a new site design (and presumably completely new architecture) for the last year and should release it soon.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/prototype/

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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by walshemj on Friday March 15, 2013 @01:16PM (#5381669)
There is a world of difference between doing a cute vanity project that works for say 99% of the time but doesn't mean that they buckle down and do the hard work involved delivering a major publishers site.

Another example Google has a lot of smart people but they cant parse a robots.txt file with a BOM in it.

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