British newspaper sites reviewed… by a reader
The other day, we posted an analyis of several U.S. newspaper web sites, examining how large — or, perhaps, how bloated — their home pages may be.
Today, “Cal” — an 18-year-old student living in Surrey, England — rates five popular British newspaper web sites.
His findings are considerably less detailed than those of the Bivings Report. But they’re much closer to how, I suspect, average readers feel.
The reviews are quite brief. A couple of even more brief excerpts:
The Sun
Design: It’s like a sex-starved 13 year old has been let loose; with pictures of nekkid women; and a shark.
Actual News: None.The Independent
Design: Slightly boring.
Actual News: Situated below the bizarre front-page article. There’s lots though.
If you do any work at all with your paper’s web operation, make sure you read this:
http://adventuresofsupercal.blogspot.com/2007/07/newspaper-websites.html
Read our previous post about the Bivings Report here:
http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2007/07/a-report-on-the-size-of-newspaper-home-pages/
July 29th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Good spot Charles and I think Cal sums the sites up pretty well.
The Times and Guardian are well out in front.
July 30th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Guardian creative director Mark Porter will talk about and show the development of the Guardian redesign at this year’s SND Workshop in Boston Oct. 11-13. Should be fascinating…
August 9th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Thanks a lot for your kind review! I did forget to mention the BBC website though, which ranks pretty highly…