ESPNOutdoors.com redesigns their web site, using much of the same visual language of the parent ESPN.com site to pull the brands closer together.
A new video carousel on the homepage has a wide, 16-by-9 format with clips both short and long, engaging you to dig a little further (after watching a pre-roll of course).
via AmmoLand
CBSNews.com redesigns their site with a new look and more exclusive content. In addition to the live coverage of breaking news and special events, the redesign brings an updated video library to the “video” page.
Other show pages expand upon the content with full-length and segment videos linking to its respective articles. Although there’s nothing really unexpected in this new version of the site, it’s at least a step further along the right track.
Pizza Hut restaurant chain redesigns their brand by taking out the “pizza” and only leaves “The Hut”
(via idsgn - thanks to a tip from skylar challand)
On a side note: Does anyone remember “BOOK IT”, the Pizza Hut reading promotion from back in the 80s? As children we loved an educational incentive to get some junk food, but in later years these kind of promotions gained more scrutiny. The program is still around, but we’re partial to the original logo and button design for the BOOK IT program. We get nostalgic when we remember the holographic one in particular. (image above found on prettylad)
GSA seeks IT firm to redesign Recovery.gov
“The Web site launched in what some call an unprecedented spirit of transparency by the White House to track spending under the the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act technically can’t do all that it is supposed to do.
That’s why the General Services Administration issued a pre-solicitation notice Thursday, informing the contracting community that it will seek an information technology contractor to make improvements to the site by redesigning, implementing and hosting the 2.0 version…”
