Me, this morning: “Ahh. Finally someone has thought about how this kind of thing should work.”
I rather like the main content module on the homepage of ESPN.com. It’s got a lot of flexibility for different kinds of content: video, photos, multiple selectable videos, and pages upon pages of big, pretty multi-media stuff. Feels like this is the way a publication should be designed for the web, at least in the sporting world.
And their featured content on the homepage today, highlighting their NCAA Tournament Challenge, is really quite nice. It’s got all the clicky, draggy-droppy, remember-me goodness that makes things really easy to use. It looks like this is all brought to you by jQuery.
If you peek into their code, by the way, they have a cute title for their top-level site navigation: “Empire Nav”. It’s maybe a little self-important, but it makes sense. I think I may start using that.