Metropolis Magazine has a new website design, thankfully, as their old site was a prime example of great content suffering a lackluster design. It wasn’t that this architecture and design magazine ignored design, it was just quirky, in a bad way. Whereas a site like eBay is quirky in a novice designer kind of way. But this general idea of good content with sub-par design could be called the eBay effect. In eBay’s case, the experience can be downright frustrating, and with a site like New York Metro it’s merely annoying, but people keep returning for the abundance of great content.