I had planned to write about the redesign of the Cornell Daily Sun online, but held off until now. Their current feature seems to be some kind of exotic hard-to-get “tease” when you try and read their stories:

As a new feature, it seems like the online branch of the Cornell Daily Sun is just a home page. They even gave up on their old/new design in favor of trying to recreate their old site after complaints from readers. The problem with the Sun online is that they’re using Drupal without sufficient Drupal-oriented staff. Drupal’s a terrible and complex beast to use on this kind of small project. A homegrown system, or another CMS, would have probably served them much better.

Someone (I can’t remember who but it might be here) said that the Cornell Daily Sun’s newspaper is uselessly fulfilling needs that they could better meet online. And, we can clearly see that their online paper is dead in the ether. Therefore, the Cornell Daily Sun shouldn’t exist?

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