What's going on here?
First InfoWorld and eWeek, then Microsoft's MSDN site, and now PC Magazine. It seems like everybody is going
through a major site redesign these days. Is it the first hint of spring in the
air (at least in the Bay Area, where winter is just ending finally)? A case of
"the other guy is doing it"? Or is everybody just feeling stale at the same
time? Wackiness.
One disturbing trend
is that the sites seem to be moving toward smaller fonts and packing more text
on the screen. Personally, I find the new multi-column eWeek layout to be
difficult to read. They also don't seem to adjust their text size based on the
browser font preference (although maybe they never did). Also, PCMag's site is a
fixed width, it doesn't grow with the width of the browser window. Tre
lame.