I feel like a general bleat, even though I have said it before: the ABC News website is just awful design for a news site, with its minimal number of "headline" stories and the need to "drill down" to find a more extensive list of stories.
This is rubbish for a well funded news organisation.
As far as I am concerned, a news website should maximise on the front page the number of direct links to stories: the layout of The Guardian runs rings around the ABC site, with its multiple links to further detail on major stories, as do the Fairfax sites. I would even say that The Australian (God forbid) is substantially better than the ABC layout (if you ignore the paywalling, at least.)
BBC News has a touch of the ABC's about it, but is still more information heavy on its front page than the latter.
I can't be the only person who finds this ABC News web design crappy, surely?
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