The Dig's Website, Reborn

The Weekly Dig just unveiled its new website design. Anything would have been an improvement over the crappy, sluggish site the Weekly Dig had before. You could go make a grilled-cheese sandwich and eat it in the time it took for a page to load.

The new site is far more sprightly in terms of performance and design. However, we didn't pay as much attention to the design as we should have because of the ad in which a volleyball-playing woman was shoving her tush in our faces. Of course, the Dig can't control the ads, but the image seemed perfect for their return, as if they were saying, "Hey, guys, we're back! And here's our ass!"

Don't rely on the search to find what you're looking for, though. We typed in the word "Menino" and expected a laundry list of search results for the mayor. Only one link to the "Bean Counter" feature turned up. We tried typing in "beer" because the Dig has the "Beer Advocate" feature, and we'd get heaps of results, right? But the number of beer-related hits seemed a little low.

That said, if the search doesn't work, just click through the categories a little to the topic you're looking for. It is pretty easy to find the Beer Advocate guys and any other feature you like. In general, the time they took off to fix the site was worth it.

Screengrab from the new weeklydig.com, with an ass advertisement.