The Washington Post’s Website

Is it me? or has their website turned into a huge mishmash of different partially redesigned sections that have no visual connection to one another? From their homepage you can visit at least five different kinds of pages that, visually, look almost nothing like the home page.

Often you can click on links that take you to pages that have only a passing relevance to the text of the link. For example, “President Visits Horse Stables” would lead to the Washington Post Politics section which has a snazzy homepage that in no way looks like the Washington Post homepage or the rest of the site. And on this Politics homepage is where you find that the article you sought is half way down the page with a totally different title “Horses come out for President.” You click on the article and it takes you back to a template that resembles what you saw on the homepage.

It’s really a terrible experience for a site with such great content.