WIRED — Homepage

wired.com is a print magazine's front page rebuilt in a browser, and it keeps print's central habit: nothing on it is ordered by time. The top band is split between TODAY'S PICKS and TRENDING STORIES — two hand-ranked lists side by side, one chosen by editors and one by traffic — with a single large lead story between them. Below that the page moves in labelled black-tab bands, each a different unit of magazine furniture rather than another row of the same feed: a Reviews strip of buying guides, Subscriber Exclusives, three columns of section links, The Big Story, a Special Sections carousel, WIRED Classics reaching back to the archive, then Videos. Typographically it is disciplined to the point of severity — one condensed display face, one serif for deks, black rules, near-white ground, and the only colour on the page coming from the photography. 7,582 pixels, four ad slots, and not one timestamp.