Checklist for Building the Ideal News Web Site
by Duncan
July 21, 2004
Interesting thoughts from Steve Outing at Editor & Publisher that may be applicable to blogging, although obviously including a blog isn’t relevant here. The scroll-less home page is flawed in the world of blogging and misses the point in relation to the stickiness of content. The samples provided are interesting however in terms of design concepts.
Editor & Publisher>If I was CEO of the online-news world (instead of a lowly industry pundit), most news Web sites would look different than they do today.
That’s not to say that there aren’t some excellent news sites out there. It’s just that none (that I’m aware of) bring all the elements together to create the ideal specimen. read more>