MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

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NineMSN new Home Page UI: more January Effect?

LiveSide - News blog — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:59:53 GMT

Thanks to our tipster down-under Beau , here's a peek at the new look for ninemsn.com.au, the MSN/PBL

re: MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

tophtucker — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:23:42 GMT

"The "tweaking" is somewhat disappointing when you compare it to the MSN Music site though :("

Indeed. I hope that's not all they're going to do........

"but what about Lifestyle, Travel, White Pages, Autos, and all the other MSN sites?"

It certainly would be nice to see them all get the same facelift!! It's been too long since MSN had one standardized style across the board.

"They have soapbox now too!"

Haha, yeah. It'd be nice if they integrated that into MSN Video more, so that you can search it all at once.

P.S. Is it just me, or is it strange that "The January Effect" only took effect in February?

re: MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

Beau — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:53:14 GMT

NineMSN (MSN in Australia) have recently put up a beta site for you to look at as well.

NineMSN - http://ninemsn.com.au

NineMSN Beta - http://beta.ninemsn.com.au

re: MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

Chris — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:15:24 GMT

The update appears to be somewhat of a gradual rollout so we should see more progress over the next few weeks.

Nice spot on the MSN.com UI. The "tweaking" is somewhat disappointing when you compare it to the MSN Music site though :(

Tophtucker: Who knows why they need so many video sites. They have soapbox now too!

re: MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

quikboy — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:20:50 GMT

Yeah, it's about time they updated it a bit. I agree with LosHavros and tophtucker, not all the MSN sites are consistent with another. It only seems they have updated the UI of MSN and it's Entertainment sites, but what about Lifestyle, Travel, White Pages, Autos, and all the other MSN sites? It would be great if they could update the UI on those sites, AND reorganize the content in those sites. The other MSN sites that haven't gotten the UI update are already not so good themselves. I find them to be cluttered, ugly, link-filled and they should give just reorganize everything on them. But at least this is a start. Maybe "The January Effect" can do something about those too.

re: MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

tophtucker — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:52:46 GMT

Look at msn.com -- it's gotten a bit of very minor tweaking too. Looks like the entertainment section isn't alone. :)

On a separate but related note, what annoys me is that there's MSN video (aka http://entertainment.msn.com/video), and then there's MSN video (aka http://video.msn.com). Microsoft has grown so giant that they're running out of names across the board (see: Live).

re: MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

LosHavros — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:30:22 GMT

It's good that MSN will be getting more consistant. This is because at the moment, different pages have different UIs...and i can't count how many homepage changes they've had.

re: MSN Revival - MSN Music gets the new UI

Khristopher — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:23:45 GMT

it's about time they updated it! it really needed it. i visit msn movies a lot and the links never seem to bring me where i need to. so it appears that problem is fixed and things interconnect properly now. great job :)