After three and a half months of blood, sweat and tears I’m extremely happy to announce the launch of FRANCE24.com. France’s answer to CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera.
Props to the team:
- Denis Brochu
- Eric Doucet
- Eric Muguet
- Fabrice Madery
- Haidar Dahnoun
- Ioana Mitrica
- Jean-Pascal Mathieu
- Jean-Philippe Shields
- Jean-Sebastien Bournival
- Jerome Brule
- Marc Aubin
- Maxime Bellerose
- Patrice Laplante
- Pierre Charland
- Romina Alvarez
- Sam Woodman
- Ara Pehlivanian ★
Congratulations on the new site… or should I say “news” site! (Yeah, that was a bad joke) I really like the layout, and am grateful for the “English” pages. :)
Looks great. Just wondering – why did you choose not to have any kind of change to links on hover e.g. underline etc.?
Tomas: Thanks! Yeah, the English pages are cool for the non-french speaking among us :-)
Lasse: Thanks! Actually I didn’t make that decision. We’ve got graphic design people who make those decisions. My team’s job is to make what they come up with a reality. :-)
congrats for this usable website. i would like to know which company designed the logo france24 ? any idea ?
Congrats Ara, nice to see you writing again, I like the site and was also happy to see the English speaking version. I would have to agree with the lack of visual cues being counter-intuative, you should go and give the creative team a hard time ;-)
If they don’t buckle… send them to me and I will nag at them!
gabyu: Thanks! I’m not sure, from what I heard we had the logo handed to us by the design firm that did all the visual work for FRANCE 24.
Alan: Thanks! It’s funny but when you’re building a site (especially with a big team where everyone is really specialized) you have a hard time seeing the big picture. (e.g. visual cues)… but then I can wash my hands of that and point to the IA and Graphics guys. Hehe. As far as nagging them goes… I’m smarter than that ;-)