CNN.com has become my favorite place for breaking news. New stories are at the top and the lower portion of the page goes into more detail. The layout is simple and the color scheme is strong, but that isn’t true for every CNN site.
I clicked on the “Sports” tab at the top of CNN.com and I was redirected to Sports Illustrated (aka SI.com). This is what I saw:

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Now if you don’t see what’s wrong with this site you must be blind. There is so much information compacted into one page that my eyes have started to bleed. There isn’t any empty space on the site and every picture/text is a link to somewhere else. You can tell the site is designed with a similar layout to CNN, but SI wants to use ALL of it’s space.
It makes me sick to see such a popular website have such a poor layout, but this isn’t the first time…cough…Myspace…cough.
Do you like the current design of SI.com? Am I the only one that is overwhealm by the SI homepage?