04 Nov 08 Note to USA Today…
…if you wanted to avoid framing this election as ‘black vs. white’, you FAILED.
Tags: screenshots, usatoday
07 Oct 08 Home page ugliness
I know the Las Vegas Sun gets all sort of accolades for its multimedia. I think I’ve even sung its praises once or thrice. But honestly, what is going on with the home page?
A huge smattering of links above the virtual fold sitting right next to an often flashing, seizure-inducing ad does not a pleasant page make. Am I alone here?
Related LinksTags: online journalism, Web sites
29 Apr 08 Dissecting the NYTimes.com with design director Khoi Vinh
Despite what Craig Ferguson says, the NYTimes is still leading the charge in many areas of journalism, most notably in the online world. The Times has been continually improving their online user experience and things seem to have really moved ahead since they took down their pay wall, something that all newspapers should do right now.
The NY Times is running week long, Talk to the Newsroom segment with Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com. What’s great about the interaction is that the questions are reader questions and not bland interviewer questions. It’s really a great chance to look behind the curtain and see what’s really going on in Oz.
Related LinksTags: new media, online journalism, technology
28 Apr 08 Where’s the multimedia tab?
In perusing several newspaper Web sites I noticed an oddity. Many sites, though I won’t mention any names, did not have a ‘multimedia/interactive/data” tab as part of their navigation. For most of them it was shoved halfway down the page, sometimes even several scrolls below the main content. This is a travesty at this stage in the game.
Even if your site doesn’t have much in the way of interactive online content, you should already be paving the way for that content in the future. Whether it be audio slideshows, video or even just picture galleries, readers should have a direct link along with all of the major sections or channels of your site to get there.
Putting it anywhere else on the site buries the content and takes the eyes away from one of the largest traffic pullers of any site. Multimedia content is an integral part of any news Web site and deserves equal billing next the news, sports, entertainment and business.
Oh, and horizontal navigation is the way to go. For more information as to why, check out Poynter’s ‘Eyetracking the News.’
Tags: multimedia, online journalism, web design
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