The Monitor is the largest paper around, it recently updated its old website design with a TOTALLY new one. They actually did a decent job besides the fact that the COLORS SUCK. If I could have it my way the site would go from its current design to something close to My Version.
Yep, thats what I’d like it to look like. Looks aside I love the blogs [would love more posts but I shouldn't be saying much about that 
], the comment feature is perfect, and overall layout is close to perfect.
What I SERIOUSLY hate is… the Popups! They manage to get past my Firefox-ness and annoy the hell out’a me. Why on earth use popups? It’s annoying, pushy and just sets an unfriendly tone. Sure they can get away with it and not lose many, if any, visitors, buts its mainly something that sites should stay away from based on the annoyance level alone.
Another thing I can’t help but hate is allot of the crappy clipart stuff, the “Homes” and “Classifieds” links w/ grainy old-school clipart just wont cut it!
Overall, the redesign brought in some new stuff, some good, some terribly bad.
BTW when they introduced the new design they wanted feedback, I sent them a link my re-design, while asking for RSS, they hadn’t rolled that out yet. Point being, they wrote back, and didn’t mention my suggestions… nice! 