Inside the New York Times Redesign

The New York Times is overhauling its article pages as part of its first major website redesign since 2006. The Times released an animated preview on Tuesday, and we stopped by their offices on Wednesday to get a closer look.

The first thing you'll notice about the new article pages — still in prototype phase — is how clean they are. There's a generous amount of white space bordering the text. The top navigation has been shrunken roughly in half, and the 728 x 90-pixel banner ad near the top of the page has been eliminated.

Images and other multimedia components, including video, have moved from thumbnail compartments into larger, more prominent placements above and in-line with the article text. Longer articles are no longer paginated because the Times found that readers read further and stay longer when they don't have those obstacles, Ian Adelman, the Times' director of digital design, says