Update (07/26/10): gov.ph now runs WordPress, but per technogra.ph, it returns a lot of missing pages and database error messages.
Here’s a thought: news sites should take a page out of the Philippines Free Press and use WordPress themes instead.
I’m not entirely serious here, because it’s yet another example of how pathetic Philippine websites are, from the highest office in government to mainstream media.
PFP takes the cake: who takes a site live with a default About page, an Uncategorized category, and blank featured images? Apparently its proud “modifier”, Skaizer.com. I wonder if they even thought of with scalability with running WordPress on a supposedly high-profile, high-traffic site.
However, its theme, Bueno by WooThemes, displays content that is far more readable and well-designed that most news sites I’ve seen, so why not? Using a theme with little to no modification won’t help your brand, but neither will a shoddy, bland, “I’m a new site therefore I must appear as neutral as possible” design.
That Yahoo News page you linked to: can you say wall-of-text?
Mr. Howie Severino says Yahoo messed up the original article. Oh well.
You’re the Liz Uy when it comes to styling websites. Can I get you for free? LOL.
im the online editor for the free press. this isn’t the final design. because we have over 100 years worth of content, it is rather challenging to convert all of these to a web layout — more so converting it to digital. we are in the process of designing something more elegant but as of now the objective is to get the FP read by readers who are not from the Philippines who are aged 50 and above. This was the easiest and most practical solution.