And now what's…

I'd imagine they'd fix that as they replace them over time. Critic went from folded tabloid size to little A4 magazine size several years ago…

There's been a guy giving away free copies of the new Herald every morning at my train station. So, possibly.

I like the new design. Feels much more modern and appropriate for the year 2012. The content's a little…

I'd actually be ok with that. Be the best way to re establish some cred, short of page 3 models.

Nah- broadsheets for desks, kitchen tables, armchairs, park benches, fish and chips long weekend afternoons and also multiple rereads.

I actually think Herald homepage links to fellow APN titles the Woman's Weekly and The Listener are long overdue.

Nah. That's ACP, publishers of Metro, North & South etc, not APN.

Given APN's new owners, perhaps the Berliner format would have been more appropriate...

Fair enough. When in the UK, I'd go out every morning and buy the Berliner format Guardian and the broadsheet Daily Telegraph. Guess which one I tended to read first on the train?

However I would say that by far the most apt description for most pages on the internet is webshite.

notanymore

Air force doesn’t take a capital any more than army does. They are using air force as a descriptor, not a proper noun. When they…

Hmm.

"The New Zealand Defence Force website is one of several defence websites..."

Works for me, except I would have thought web site is two words.

The style guide also appears to bear out my ire at their lack of capitalisation…

In this article, the usage can be seen – ranks are in uppercase when used as titles, lowercase when used as nouns. "a part-time American major " vs "Col Collins"

The same in [[http://www.economist.com/node/21559891|this Economist…

Another article on the same general topic had "sterling" where I assumed, from its out-of-context position, STG should have been. Their auto-complete is obviously…

Then what does "former wing commander Logan Cudby" mean? Wing Commander is a rank, and there are references to others of that rank with appropriate capitalisation. The article's internal consistency is a mess.

They also failed to adhere…

That's what I get for taking the word of a NY Times infographicist! He gained my trust with his hipster glasses and same first name as me...

How does National get to run these numbers and how does it make the lead on the Herald website??

$78 billion if everyone on the benefit at a low point in the economic cycle is always on the benefit.

Also on the trend in poll results Labour and the…

This explains it fairly well.

Is it from over-use or use in inappropriate settings?

Is it a snobbish “I wouldn’t be seen dead using it” or is there something fundamentally “wrong” about it that makes it a poor font in ways that are not…

Trust Microsoft to teach you wrong. I'm pretty sure that was Comic Sans' evil cousin Papyrus.

Things I learned from MS TechEd #4:
Once you know this, you can't not see it.

You're welcome.

You still can. I read everything in Comic Sans because I hate myself.

The markup (like h1, p) was interpreted by the user's browser according to their choice of font. If you wanted to see everything in sans-serif, you could. It was a feature.

(But not one that…

Damn these neologisms, when will it all settle down to Galactic Standard?

– admittedly Fairfax does a…

It's a WOFF web font that looks great if your browser can display…

In terms of the headlines, I agree. All the curvey parts of the font (I'm sure there must be a fancy word for them) look pixelated. Makes me think that the page is always only partially loaded.

Really? Does it get any better if you make it bigger?

The Poll of the day – today I found interesting – it could become a drag.

The format appears to lend itself to sensation rather than news and editorial content,

“Cross dresser robs…

I’d like to see said sub dealing to the word…

Being NZ's Got Talent, the "limo" is actually a Toyota Yaris! (Oh crap, the sponsorship has stuck in my brain...)

Frequently that may be the case... but this was referring to the 2011 election.... margins of error are presumed not to exist once all the votes have been counted.

The best error I've seen in the Herald (probably computer generated) is the conversion of the abbreviation STG into a pound sign, as in this article:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10783521

Me too. And I'd be grumpy if I'd written it and a sub changed it.

When the crowd was queuing there was an anti-asset sales protest going on in the Octagon. As the queue got longer the two crowds started to merge just before the anti-asset…

#FirstWorldProblems, much?

Good question for a pop survey right here . Who here has been on a reality show ?

Me – once .

Tamati Coffey is the right mix of cruisy host with a heart , our Rachael surprised me she played her part…

Well I was really pissed by that , I had 5 front page ads booked in the Aucklander until the end…

The important thing to remember about any of these shows is that they are not competitions, they are TV shows, and as such…

The paper's usage is correct. Titles are capitalized, job descriptions are not.
"Flight Lieutenant Bigglesworth" / "the corporal looked up".

See Guardian style guide, under capitals.

(The actual howler in that article is "Rob Stockley sits solemn in his dining room". Should be "solemnly").

Yeah. I knew it was fake, but not how incredibly fake it was.

Ben Elton wrote a book on these sorts of TV shows (Heart…

Or to put it succinctly, a bit like…

Or that they report them at 1.4% in the graphic and both 1.4 and 1.5% in the text, either of which adds up to a total of 99.8 or 99.9% with all the other parties included. When the number…

What is needed is a barcode format that's almost, but not quite, unlike a QR code, but would be cool, because new.

And the new Herald is a big improvement ... I cafe-tested it today.

Probably. There is no other platform [ETA: of any significance], after all.

One major advantage of the compact format is being able to read without spreading it out but when you open it up now all the inserts fall out on your lap.

And yes, the "Business" liftout is something of an…

I quite like the way the Herald has set up QR codes…

The Susan Boyle audition is a masterful example of this. It's sets up perfectly – it's noted there's been a lack of talent at the…

As an aside for some reason I really like that NZ beef and lamb use strong athletic women to advertise their product. A refreshing change from the usual models.

Hopefully, and I'm not holding my breath, the editorial staff have taken heed of the strong resistance to tabloid content that their focus-grouping uncovered…

I watched the last series of Britain's Got Talent (thanks, auntie!) and NZGT had a lot of stylistic similarities. Vignettes of performers getting ready…

There's a nice symmetry to this, both men fighting ancient wars and struggling for relevance. A debate between them on almost every issue would resolve ultimately into (a) you're a lazy commie followed by (b) you're a wealthy prick. This…

There are things about website re-design that don’t work for me but nobody ever nails it straight out of the box. And to The Herald’s credit, yesterday they had people on Twitter monitoring reaction and making a…

I had the... lets call it an experience... of being in the audience in Dunedin for about 3 hours. Not through choice, but to support my partner's nieces. It was a doubly disappointing experience because they didn't even get to perform in the afternoon so I sat…

That aside, I quite like the redesign and the website is much cleaner.

There is indeed: beef and lamb, to be precise. The meat ad on page 41 has cover stars Sarah and Lisa in the same orientation as the the cover pic and the…

but, can someone please teach them how to use denominators.

thanks,
reality.

I can understand the sheer terror of facing a blank page and an immovable deadline – who…

While you're right, there's some meat in there (although what an odd place…

Refreshing the Herald website, mobile app and the printed paper on one day was an ambitious thing to do

They updated the mobile app? Mine's just the same as before, and no updates listed in the Marketplace.
Unless it was just the iPhone app that got a facelift.