Welcome to the new SMS Text News!
Morning! Welcome! Here, then, is a picture of the old site for posterity…. for ’tis no more!
That old design has been totally swapped, courtesy of the geniuses at Forty Media. (A big thank you to James Archer and his team!)
(If you’re reading on an RSS feed, click here to visit the new site.)
There are a few small changes we have yet to implement — for example we’ve got to update the Who’s Who and the Anonymous Tip Form with the new style, so do pardon our dust.
We’re extremely pleased with the new style. For a while now, because of the volume of items we publish, we’ve been having trouble distinguishing between news — that is, just plain-old-mobile-news that we really want to publish — and special features (e.g. A visit to Truphone, the Texpert launch, or the forthcoming Spinvox feature).
So on the left side of the page, you’re now seeing a section for features. Whilst news appears, as normal, on the right.
Scroll down and you’ve news from a few select categories (we might change the categories shown actually). Then we list the latest reader comments.
If you’ve got some feedback, we’d love to hear it — positive or negative — right here, or by email (ewan@smstextnews.com).
I hope you enjoy.
Looks great, mate! SMS Text News is such a joy to read, it’s a bonus to see it’s gotten even prettier as well.
Posted by Vero on August 15th, 2007 at 9:38 am.Nice to see it switch over from the testing area to the live front of the site. Looking good.
Miss being able to read more than just the title of the posts though. And it is not easy to see if / how many comments on a post. But otherwise looking great!
Dave
Posted by David on August 15th, 2007 at 10:34 am.http://www.davidgeere.com
First thought: “EUGH!”
Slowly but surely - after an hour of usage - “Like it. Much more user friendly.”
Posted by James Whatley on August 15th, 2007 at 10:55 am.I agree, much more user friendly!
Excellent work.
Posted by Ed on August 15th, 2007 at 4:07 pm.It was a shock at first….but getting used to it was quick and I think the new design is great. Very easy to use and easy on the eye.
The guys at Forty Media have done a really good (and very unmanageable) job!
Posted by Grant on August 15th, 2007 at 4:20 pm.the new site is ace. this is where i get all my mobile news from now, you lot are going to take over the world.
Posted by ant on August 15th, 2007 at 9:50 pm.Well done Ewan, it looks great.
Posted by Patrick on August 15th, 2007 at 10:18 pm.Love it Ewan…. It looks very professional and its great to see you going from strength to strength.
Mark
Posted by Mark on August 16th, 2007 at 9:44 am.Very nice!!! I like it a lot. Congrats Ewan!!!
Posted by nate on August 16th, 2007 at 8:32 pm.Where did Shopqwik go? I am still waiting for their update to come out so I can start using them in the States.
Posted by Jeb on August 17th, 2007 at 6:57 pm.