Wizard’s website woes

Mental note: never hire the people who wrote the spec for Wizard’s website.

Wizard, the automatic lowest common denominator in comics print journalism, have redesigned their website. Now the big comicbook news websites aren’t generally known for the blistering design, but Wizard’s site really takes the biscuit. You can tell how low they sunk when the first thing you hear upon loading the site is a recorded message from some girl off of Baywatch Hawaii!

The new site is painfully slow so I assume they’re still tweaking it, but I have a feeling that this rant is just gain steam! Wizard also seems to have broken their old urls, which means that any stories you deep linked to either via your personal bookmarks folder or via a site like del.icio.us are now invalid. You can get around this by putting the link into google and viewing their cashed version of the page.

Update 22/05/07: It seems they’ve reverted to the original format (wish I’d taken a screen shot). But note the date of news posts – 10 days is a long time without update for a professional news site.