MSNBC Makeover

I don’t know if I missed an announcement or they didn’t publicize it in the first place, but MSNBC has finally updated its web site and got rid of horrendous dropdown menus. The giant banner at the top is gone as well, replaced with a search box and some miscellany. I don’t know what it is, but the whole theme feels lighter this way.

What I find atrocious, though, is intermediate advertising pages. Click Business, for example, and you are first presented with an ad and a link to proceed to the Business section. Still doing this in 2005 is insane.

In terms of validation… Don’t get me started.

Elsewhere: Eric Meyer has a write-up on the recent CNN makeover.