Utusan Malaysia Online new look
Good morning 2008, the first day of 2008. How is everyone? What? Just woke up?? Haha, just kidding. As usual, I started my day reading local news paper and international news online. Not much hot news, except the new year celebration all over the world. 1 thing that caught my eye today is the new look of Utusan Online.
The looks
Definitely better than before. The front page shows more infos covering all news section. My favorite section, ‘Senyum Kambing’ is also available there.
Site Navigation
Almost the same like before (see the cache), but with some enhancement. There are also top navigation bar which provides non-content menu such as advertising and ‘contact us’.
Search box
This is a must have features for any website/blog. New Utusan Online has this new feature available on its top navigation bar
Ads placement,layout and size
300×250 ads size is among the best ads format (especially in Adsense). It is located at one of the ads hot spot, where most blogs/website nowadays using this location. There are also ads located at the header and both right and left sidebars. With the new layout, Utusan Online should be able to fully utilize its website thus maximizing their online ads revenue.
Google Adsense
Utusan Online should try Google adsense like The Star (another local newspaper). But I believe, since Adsense does not support Bahasa Malaysia yet, the contextual ads engine might not work well and the revenue would be less than private ads. But why not give it a try??
RSS
No RSS available. I prefer to have them even though it is partial feed so I can read them from my RSS reader 
Overall it looks more ‘professional’ with better site navigation, layout and ideal ads placement. It is more like a portal now for me. The content, you judge it by yourself!!
Update 4-Jan-2007:
Few days after browsing new Utusan Online, I can feel the performance or load time is slightly slow than old the Utusan
yap… mmg nampak lebih professional berbanding dahulu… sedap skit mate memandang..
i think the design is a bit too common and too cluttered. i can’t keep my focus when i go in. well, maybe i am used to the old one so much.
utusan.com.my tempat me bersarapan pagi..
tp bharian.com.my dah lama tukar setting layout dia..
salam tahun baru 2008 utk yg empunyer blog ini.. enjoy!
Yes, I like this new design. And what a way to start the new year story with a political sex scandal! He he… someone is in the soup now..
Yep, IMHO too
Now you gotto used with the new ones. Cluttered for more ads placement
selamat tahun baru untuk anda
Hahaha, that fella has confessed today. It happens 2 years ago. Anyone has the DVD??
Ehehe… Haven’t been to Utusan Online for a while, but glad that now it looks better than before. Less cluttered, I must say.
*ahem* Erm… My brother who’s now residing in Johor got a digital copy from his friend. Talked to him on the phone and I was like, “Dude, I so don’t want to watch that!” and he said “Not worth watching, anyway.” Haha~
Anyway, I think we really should be more concerned about the fact that the DVD was filmed from 4 different angles. That alone speaks a lot about whichever hotel he was staying at. Must be accepting some kind of bribery from some political enemies.
Cheers~
tapi kalo berbanding dgn metro aku lagi suka baca metro dari baca utusan malaysia sbb aku suka info yg metro sediakan
Btw Adlina, your comment and contact ’send’ button didn’t works. Nothing happen when I press it. I’m using Firefox btw
Hehehe. Batu Pahat police issued a warning not to distribute this video
You mean the form at stylishgeeks.net right? Sorry, got too many sites to manage that I get confused sometimes. My bad.
Thank you so much for telling me about the problem with the form. I haven’t check the functionality for a while, so I’m really grateful
Found the culprit. Advertlets script messed some other scripts on the site.
Yes, stylishgeeks.net. No problem. Great that you have found it.
Got to to work now. I’ll try back later when I reach office
Yup.. utusan have improve the layout to be more user friendly n nice to look..