The incredible shrinking main navigation

Recently someone mentioned to me the main navigation on cnn.com. I've read that site every day for about 6 years, but I couldn't tell you what even one of the main navigation items was. Lorem? Ipsum? No idea. What's interesting about this to me is that it was never a conscious decision on my part. I never realized that I never used it - I just didn't because, apparently, I didn't need it.

Now that I'm paying more attention, I'm noticing all kinds of creative ways that online publishing sites are de-emphasizing main navigation in favor of robust and well-designed homepages, user-driven navigation, and tag linking techniques. In this blog entry I share a few of these different techniques.

Editor and Publisher Interactive Media Conference

A couple weeks ago, we attended the Editor and Publisher Interactive Media Conference. I've been going to these types of conferences for a long time, as well as following all the trends in media - both on and offline, so there were no big surprises from the speakers. But what did strike me as strange is the technology vendors and choices being made by some media companies.

Lessons Learned from Online Journalism and Publishing Projects

Every engagement has opportunities to learn and improve. Here are a few lessons I’ve learned over the years from some of our online publishing projects that may be helpful for an organization embarking on an online publishing project.