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Elaine Helm

Newbie

Joined: 12 Jan 2007

Posts: 2

Location: Everett, Wash.

Posted:
Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:25 pm

We're looking to redesign our newspaper Web site as we move to a new online content management system. Anybody care to share their favorites among the best-designed newspaper sites?

I've seen a lot of features that I like out there, but very few sites that combine those with a clean overall design and intuitive navigation.

Yuri Victor

Contributing editor

Joined: 27 Oct 2004

Posts: 248

Location: Times of Northwest Indiana

Posted:
Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:41 pm

In no particular order

http://www.savannahnow.com/

http://www.knoxnews.com/

http://www.courierpress.com/

http://www.ljworld.com/

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/

http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/

Some great non-newspaper news sites

http://www.comcast.net/

http://www.lawrence.com/

http://asap.ap.org

Lauren Todd

Juke Box Hero

Joined: 21 Jul 2005

Posts: 49

Location: Arizona Daily Star

Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:30 am

Hey Elaine! Just saying hi (publically) and hope the new job is going well.

Not to brag, but our newspaper site is pretty good. www.azstarnet.com.
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Yuri Victor

Contributing editor

Joined: 27 Oct 2004

Posts: 248

Location: Times of Northwest Indiana

Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:06 am

Lauren Todd wrote::

Hey Elaine! Just saying hi (publically) and hope the new job is going well.

Not to brag, but our newspaper site is pretty good. www.azstarnet.com.

If you throw an http in front of the url, it will link correctly.

http://www.azstarnet.com

Lauren Todd

Juke Box Hero

Joined: 21 Jul 2005

Posts: 49

Location: Arizona Daily Star

Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:16 pm

Copy and paste. It's really not that hard to figure out.

Sorry for wasting 10 seconds of everyone's time.

moiramc

Visual Guru

Joined: 01 May 2004

Posts: 70

Location: Savannah, Ga.

Posted:
Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:55 am

There's no www. in front of savannahnow.com.

Alejandro Banuet

Tiki Lounger

Joined: 21 Nov 2004

Posts: 16

Location: permanent tourist

Posted:
Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:34 am

my personal favorite is

www.iht.com

Mark A. Dodge Medlin

Maestro

Joined: 18 Dec 2004

Posts: 330

Location: San Diego Union-Tribune

Posted:
Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:35 pm

Thanks for the links, folks. Those are all good ones.
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Ken Hawkins

Contributing editor

Joined: 09 Mar 2004

Posts: 100

Location: The Post & Courier

Posted:
Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:03 pm

Perhaps someone here can shed some light on a burning question of mine: Why is it that we, as an industry, feel obligated to make our home pages look like a vast table of contents? (even many of the "better" Web sites linked to here have this behavior, but kudos to savannah and the red eye for their ingenuity) It would seem self evident that people come to a news Web site for either news or to find news. So why not make the home page have simply a prominent search and have more content with a bit of furniture (weather, etc), you know, like a section front?

It just seems like people come to our Web sites to read and not stare down a jumbled table of contents.

I feel pretty firm in this stance although it is very counter industry, (though I suppose itâ€™s worth noting I have done a bit of Web work in the past) but I'd love to hear some dissenting opinions as to why.

Many of my views echo what you can read here http://www.brasstacksdesign.com/nytimes_redesign.htm

p.s. I rather like: hotzone.yahoo.com

Robb Montgomery

Founder

Joined: 07 Mar 2004

Posts: 1504

Location: Chicago

Posted:
Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:52 pm

Quote:

So why not make the home page have simply a prominent search

Yes, why so cluttered, indeed?

THE TRUTH HURTS.

Homepages like the NY Times.com are designed for Google bots first, humans second.

Look, the sad truth is that news sites that publish thousands of links and headines on them are designed first for machines.

Search Engine bots can process a thousand homepage links in a nanosecond. Humans are, quite naturally, overloaded by this type of presentation so they run to the search engines and other filters to make sense of this fire hose of information.
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