The Hindu is pleased to relaunch its website www.thehindu.com with a contemporary design that showcases its valuable content keeping user experience at its centre. The website is responsive, adapting itself to different device screen sizes, from desktop to laptop, tablet and mobile.
The mobile view has been simplified with a hamburger menu, carousels and story cards for easy navigation.
The site features rich multimedia content, including larger displays for videos, photo galleries and podcasts on trending news, entertainment and lifestyle issues.
The site has been designed for easy readability and navigation, with clear site navigation, information architecture, colour coding and structure to easily and intuitively access content.
Sections as well as article pages have sticky headers and other navigational aids that allow users to move through the site seamlessly and from story to story. Each page has section lists that have hide/ show feature that allows the user to control the length of the page being browsed.
The design highlights individual, promoted stories that have been curated by our editors to showcase the best of the rich content that The Hindu has to offer. Fonts have been selected after testing to ensure great readability across devices. A rich search interface allows users to search for articles by author, section and content type.
The site has pointers that helps users reach popular and latest content, such as the ‘Just In’ display, which showcases breaking news, and the ‘Trending’ display that shows users the most popular content. The website also integrates social media sharing options to help users refer articles easily to friends.
Each section page has been designed to be a destination in itself, so get ready to explore new sections such as ‘Entertainment’, that features music, dance, theatre, art, reviews, and movies, ‘Life & Style’ that showcases food, fashion, fitness, motoring and travel and ‘Society’, that showcases faith, history and culture. These sections showcase the best content from our print supplements ‘Metro Plus’, ‘Friday Review’, ‘Sunday Magazine’ and ‘Property Plus’.
Our curated section ‘Specials’ showcases curated content on a wide variety of subjects that have been designed for the user to explore and read in depth various articles in a single destination.
Published - October 03, 2016 03:45 pm IST