DrudgeReport Masterpiece: Do a little. Say a lot.

Check the stack of headlines top left leading inevitably down to "Obama goes golfing..." Then check the picture and the gesture of the thumb over the main headline. Yet another moment in the news=views genius of Drudge. It's frozen in time in the archives @ DrudgeReportArchives

Taken all in all, it's another testament to this supposedly ancient and "inelegant" webpage that many slicker and much less visited web sites and designers disparage. But when you put those morons aside, you can see clearly that it is easily one of the most brilliantly designed pages in that it, seemingly, has no design.

But of course it does. It's pure WYSIWYG. Loads fast, has headlines that provoke and intrigue. The ads stay out of the way. And most of all it says, quite clearly and immediately, what for the moment is THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT thing on the page. No hunting. No scrolling. Just point click and go.

And yet it all somehow manages to get across what the page's editor, Matt Drudge, has to say about the news of the day.

The are millions of other "news pages" on the web. But they don't get better than Drudge, they just get more elaborate.

Posted by Vanderleun at March 6, 2011 9:45 AM