The Top 3 Reasons Gawker's New Design Is a Disaster

The site's right-hand list only scrolls when I use <i>my mouse's scroll wheel</i>. This list has no visible scroll bar (the window's scroll bar has been hijacked to scroll ONLY the left-hand side).<p>They took the part of the site that should be the <i>primary</i> way to discover what the site has to offer, and turned it into a frustrating mess that behaves in unexpected ways and artificially restrains movement. What better way to minimize the time visitors are willing to spend on your site.

Just when we thought the era of epilepsy-inducing website design was over.<p><pre><code> { background-color: ick; font-size: too big; margin-left: way too much; margin-right: way too much; padding: not quite enough; focus: none; }</code></pre>

The way the new design constrains the user is what bothers me most. Having a page that scrolls off the screen makes the content seem much more "deep" than it really is. I think they chose this design to appease the tablet crowd.

Are we looking at the same site? I see a clean, readable page. The navigation is kind of wonky, but the site is far from a disaster.<p>Maybe it's because I use AdBlock?