the new timesofmalta.com: (part 1)

Online readers should have realized that timesofmalta.com has been given a new layout and feel. The layout uses more grey and more coloumns, which for some may be too much to handle visually.

From an advertising perspective it's interesting that the website now includes audio-visual video-adverts, apart from the usual display banners. I believe that these kind of online adverts are a first locally (excluding the flash animations or youtube embedded videos used on some other websites).

From an interactive perspective, i feel that the new layout could have been introduced in a more subtle manner. Some of the website sections have been removed and new ones were added.

Amongst the new sections there is the blogs section. The section currently links to 3 blogs. I hope that more blogs will be added at a later stage...we would be interested to BLAB on the timesofmalta webspace!

Another new section is the Media section which features Video Stories and Video downloads. Finally, for all Sudoku freaks, an online Sudoku provided by WebSudoku.com