NewTeeVee Gets a New Look
Welcome to the brand-new NewTeeVee!
Three months ago we started this project with little more than an orange-tinged GigaOM design and an imperative to create ‘the Variety of online video.’ We had high hopes but also quite a bit of doubt about whether we could attract a community of readers. Though we loved every minute of it, it took us a little time to get comfortable in our own skin.
Today, we launch a new skin for the site, hoping to bring a little more spark to our page. Using your feedback, our wildest dreams, and the formidable skills of designer Nicolò Volpato (who previously impressed us with his stylish take on Om’s personal blog), we tried to reflect the visual nature of the topics we cover. RSS readers, we hope you’ll click through for this one.
We were also fortunate to have the able assistance of Spencer Miles and Mark Hall of Remixation and vod:pod, who helped us with the core concept of bringing video to the forefront of the site.
Last but not least, we welcome two new contributors: film critic Karina Longworth, who will be writing a weekly review of an online video show, clip, or movie, and Craig Rubens, who will be helping out with news items and occasionally lending us his film making/video-blogging chops. Look for their first posts next week.
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Woot! Lurve it. And now my one-of-a-kind NewTeeVee tee is an instant throwback!
Jackson West on March 23rd, 2007 at 11:35 am - Permalink
I just wrote a post about how I was impressed with Om’s personal blog… this design is even better! My compliments to the designer!
Rushi Vishavadia on March 23rd, 2007 at 11:37 am - Permalink
Don’t forget about the thief who nabbed the only other two old-school NewTeeVee tees in existence. Now it’ll be even more obvious who it is!
Liz Gannes on March 23rd, 2007 at 11:54 am - Permalink
[...] the little sapling taking root, we decided it was time for us to give it a facelift, enhance its look and feel to reflect more of the community Liz, Jackson, Paul and our stellar line [...]
GigaOM » The Really New NewTeeVee on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm - Permalink
Wow, that is strikingly nice to look at. AdSense in that box along the top is a little awkward, but I think it might work. Good work designers!
Marshall Kirkpatrick on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm - Permalink
Thanks Rushi and Marshall! We are going to be making tweaks soon so we really appreciate the specific feedback.
Liz Gannes on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm - Permalink
She’s a beaut! Very pleasing on the ol’ retinas. Vodpod integration is tight too. Congrats!
Eddie Codel on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm - Permalink
Congrats! Nice colors! Is VodPod powering that video menu? I love it! I want a widget like that! Text ads at the top aren’t the prettiest. But I suppose they pay the bills, huh?
Mark Schoneveld on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm - Permalink
About those text ads - well we ran out of our proper banners and are defaulting to the back-up ads: google text ads, but hopefully it will all be resolved on Monday.
sorry about that, but we just wanted to get it out of the way asap.
Om on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:43 pm - Permalink
wowow. very nice! i feel bad that i mostly read this via rss. i will now be clicking through more often i think.
buster on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:45 pm - Permalink
I come back from lunch and what a pleasent surprise. Loveeee it!
Taylor McKnight on March 23rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm - Permalink
Hey Mark - we’ll be releasing some documentation in a few weeks on how to setup a custom widget like the one on Newteevee (you’ll be able to CSS it to your heart’s content). In the meantime, we also have a cool sidebar widget that you might like.
Spencer Miles on March 23rd, 2007 at 1:05 pm - Permalink
Thanks, Spencer! I was just talking to Lance Weiler the other day about VodPod future developments, and I’m excited to see more!
Mark Schoneveld on March 23rd, 2007 at 1:37 pm - Permalink
[...] I already have a pretty tight schedule, so I wasn’t able consider most of these offers. But, starting next week, I will be contributing a weekly column to NewTeeVee, the self-described “Variety of online [...]
Vidiocy » Twitter Got Me A Job on March 23rd, 2007 at 2:00 pm - Permalink
Clean, neat, video-centric…very smart! Om, I wish I’d been able to catch up with you at VON to interview you for my show…next time.
Jim Long on March 23rd, 2007 at 2:10 pm - Permalink
[...] - Om Reboots NewTeeVee Om Malik has revamped his site with video clips on the top. Nice use of video. Now we hope to see some of the PodTech videos up there [...]
GigaTeeVee - Om Reboots NewTeeVee « John Furrier on March 23rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm - Permalink
Orange is the new..something…. anyway, ees nice!
Chuck Olsen on March 23rd, 2007 at 2:55 pm - Permalink
Very nice, and a huge congrats to the designer.
My only gripe would be that I’m not too sure about either the font or the font-size.
Overall a nice re-design.
Sickr on March 23rd, 2007 at 3:39 pm - Permalink
Lookin’ good!
Dave Lindsay on March 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 pm - Permalink
NewTeeVee is Ready For a Close Up Mr DeMille
Ty Graham on March 23rd, 2007 at 4:30 pm - Permalink
Thanks guys!
Agree with you about the font (and also the type spacing), Sickr. We are going to try to play around with that.
Liz Gannes on March 23rd, 2007 at 5:03 pm - Permalink
Liz,
The site looks fantastic. Naturally I’m biased, but it really looks great. Nice job!
Best,
Jon
Jon Callaghan on March 23rd, 2007 at 8:21 pm - Permalink
hey guys, I’m an RSS reader so I actually can’t remember how the site looked before but it looks very good now. One thing, the white boxes for the posts and comments don’t look that good. too much contrast between the white background and the site background (almost black). I would make the white a bit darker and give them round corners and a visible frame. Just like the design for GigaOM.
Bentzurm on March 24th, 2007 at 12:12 am - Permalink
Welcome the grey-and-orage club! http://www.aliceinparis2007.com
Macthomson on March 24th, 2007 at 6:53 am - Permalink
Just saw this after two days off-line. Fantastic. Orange does bring spark to the page. Posts already had it, even in Google Reader.
Stuart Gannes on March 26th, 2007 at 1:12 am - Permalink