Out with the new in with old...huh?

In a major redesign, MSNBC, announced this week that it was bringing back it's old fly out menus. I was a big fan of this menu and was disappointed to say the least when they took it away.

This menu provided so much stickyness to their site. I mean, I used to spend a long time reading all the stories here as they were so easily accessible. I stop visiting MSNBC because they took this feature away. I then thought that they were just trying to get page views from me as I kept getting hit with splash pages everytime I visited an article.

In an effort to keep everyone happy, they have now provided an added feature of not displaying the "fly-out" menu if the user does choose it.

In an effort to not lag behind, CNN, also redesig its homepage. Though not such a drastic redesign, and a lot of it resembling New York Times, they created a small buzz around the Web community.

The bottom line, is that in order to keep your visitors sometimes you have to please all of them. MSNBC has provided such capability with their new/old fly out menu, while CNN is showing signs of a good effort by improving its interface.