TechCrunch’s New Year Make-Up

Posted by Erdem OZKAN on 3 January, 2009

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Michael Arrington’s Web 2.0 news blog TechCrunch is a huge success in the blogosphere. It has now more than 1700k (1,7 million) daily RSS readers, ranked as 2nd most popular blog by Technorati and has a traffic rank of 3530 in the world. I wonder if Michael Arrington was dreaming this excellent situation when he started TechCrunch in June, 11, 2005.

TechCrunch in 2005

TechCrunch has a become a digital brand and a news source for most of the blogs like our SiteBoat. TechCrunch has had different designs in the three and a half year period. Approximately on its first birthday, TechCrunch started to have the fresh look based on the harmony of green and white and its actual was born.

TechCrunch in 2006

In August, 2008; the TechCrunch team redesigned their page and cleaned things up and switched over to an “excerpt” format to let users to het a taste of the posts on the homepage before diving into read them in full. The new minimalist approach to design has meant more whitespaces and less loading time.

TechCrunch Redesign in 2008

As 2009 comes, TechCrunch’s minimalist design changes again. By the new design, the ad spaces seem to be optimized and the homepage has started to have a magazine-style look. The featured posts of the week take place over the homepage but this new thing needs to be improved. The loading time of the homepage is reduced and i liked the black- colored top bar. Briefly, this new year makeup gives a simple but fresh look to TechCrunch.

* We wish you a happy new year with health and success in your business.