New Matilda is back in 2008 with a very spiffy web redesign, and is striking out in some new directions under the new editorship of Marni Cordell. I’ll be contributing on a regular basis, and I’ve kicked off the year with a look at what lies ahead for us in the realm of domestic politics.
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It’s true. All of the cool kids are doing Drupal.
I think you told us we should have done that back in 05 when LP was born, Liam… a prophet without honour in his own country vindicated at last!
/reference Chicago School
You know, the more I read through it, the better it looks. Geez that’s a good use of the software.
It’s really nice design work to be sure.
What’s that font called? I want to eat it.
It looks ever so slightly melty, like icing sugar.
Depends on your browser, Izquierdista.
First one, left to right, that your OS recognises. If you’re a Mac user (I think I recall?) it’ll definitely be Lucida Grande.
Well, of course, Im PC in all things Liamista.
Fits okay in the 800×460 screen on my new geeky piece of kit, an Asus Eee PC 4G. Although the site doesn’t appear to be loading for me at this time. Never the less there will be great reading to be had there in the future by the looks of it.
Bah, if the site would ever manage to load I could grace you all with my professional opinion. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.
See what you mean, Nick. It was a nice fast load this arvo.
It’s now borked. Bugger.
Working fine for me now.
Great looking site. Now they just need to put a broom threw the whiney brutes who er “write” for it.
I’m getting a bit sick of you, JG. Get a blog or something and let’s see how well you write. Or submit some of your work somewhere.
Agreed, lets see something you’ve written, JG. Why don’t you whack up a post?
Enlighten us. Bring us the wisdom of the non-whiney. Blitz us with a non-luvvie truth storm, that we may see the error of our ways, etc.
JG, this seems a particularly rude thing to say as Mark has specifically said he’ll be writing for New Matilda. A bit like walking into someone’s home and telling them how awful it is.
“A bit like walking into someone’s home and telling them how awful it is.”
Yes, and that quite neatly sums up much (not quite all) of John’s contribution here.
“you’re all farked, luvvies, and you’d do well to INSERT BLAH BLAH…”
But he seems to stay around for some reason. Could it be that his fellow ideological travellers aren’t much fun to talk to?
OK, finally got it to load. Very nice. Well-organised design, good information architecture, clean and semantic markup. A bit of excessive inline Javascript here and there though.
Easily one of the best Australian web publications I’ve ever seen, and frankly I’m a bit jealous.