AVN has relaunched its website and the result is impressive.
Graphically, the site is less busy than it was before, and videos do not play automatically, which was a problem with the old design. A headline refreshes every few seconds accompanied by a larger, tabloid-style picture.
Without appearing like a gossip blog or a news aggregator, AVN balances what actual news there is in the adult business with arresting images. Read more after the gap.
“Let’s face it,” said Loup Perch-Tounge of Porn watchdog the Chatsworth Creampie Collective, “You can’t make ‘Boy Butter Posts Video to Youtube’ look like news, so why pretend? The new site is eye-catching.”
After years of delays, AVN has stepped up its design and looks competitive again.
The surprise redesign, coming a month after the relaunch of XBiz and 90 days after the groundbreaking and paradigm-shattering reimagining of GramPonante.com, has adult industry pundits pleasantly surprised.
“I had such low expectations that this is really a treat,” said Turgid Video’s Mango Ratpen who, like most members of the adult industry, reads AVN for mentions of his name. “It reminds me of the positive feeling I had when I watched ‘Transformers’ to get out of the rain and ended up enjoying it.”
The redesign features a nostalgic Web 1.5 podcast by Paul Fishbein and even an Adultcon ad, heralding the industry giant’s willingness to acknowledge its competition gracefully.
Previously: Gram Ponaante launches iLick; Erotica L.A. cancelled; XBiz relaunch: Something about Statue of Liberty, sperm
See also: AVN
Gram, maybe if you devoted your considerable talents to the forces of Good rather than to tearing down your old employer, maybe Gram Ponante Towers could refinish the helipad.
refinish the…? wait – Gram, do you have a wooden helipad?
Yes, the Towers’ helipad is the old parquet flooring from the Boston Garden.
if i’d known that, i would have been flying down to visit in my autogiro much more often.