Martha Stewart 3.0: The Evolution of MarthaStewart.com

Richard MacManus:

Three years ago we reviewed Martha Stewart's women's lifestyle website, marthastewart.com. At that time, April 2007, the site had just undergone a web 2.0 facelift. Martha Stewart 2.0 included more videos, blogging and general community features such as recipe swap functionality and message boards. It planned to add further personalization and community features over 2007.

We thought it would be interesting to take another look at Martha Stewart's website, to get an indication of how mainstream websites have evolved over the past 3 years.

The design of marthastewart.com hasn't changed much since we last checked. It has the same pastel green color scheme and is organized in much the same way, around lifestyle categories: Food, Entertaining, Holidays, Weddings, Crafts, Home & Garden, Pets, Whole Living, Community.

However if we look more closely, several things have taken more prominence on the site compared to 2007.