CNN Launched their redesign today, an all around improvement for sure.

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One of the most interesting things is the newly centered CNN logo. This indicates a renewed focus on their brand and design wise looks great. This site still looks extremely clean even with the addition of the red header instead of all white like the previous version. The content is in a three column layout, framed in light gray boxes that give it some structure but doesn’t detract from the core of the site, content. The new site doesn’t appear to give a huge focus on specific vertical screen real-estate either which naturally forces the user to scroll without thinking twice. This is a simple but great achievement giving more flexibility for the content programming of the page.

Technically they have made some improvements as well. The page is fast coming down in around three seconds. It’s also leveraging assets from a CDN but that is nothing new. They can still make some improvements here with long live TTLs on images to improve browser cache-ability as well as minifying css and js assets.

All-in-all great work by the Turner team, congrats.