martes, 23 de abril de 2013

My Website: practical and functional

A newspaper website design needs to be simple and concise, easy to navigate in and easy to find the stories you are looking for. I don't think people like websites with thousands of ads poping out of everywhere. Those are a distraction. If you're looking for news, that's what you should get all around the website.


If I had to design a newspaper website I would use a practical feature. Like in some of the best newspaper websites, the main page will show all the sections of the newspaper and its most important news of the moment.


However, I would like to have videos that go with all the news stories in every section.
I know it is not an easy task, and that video is not practical for some people that like to skim through the articles, but I believe it is a feature that could grow progessively. Doing that would allow people that don't like to read a lot, to be informed just by watching a video. For those who enjoy reading or skimming through the story, there would be an article there for them.


Besides, I would like to offer the public some hours during the week in which our section editors are available for videocalls to answer some of their questions and debate about different topics of interest.
It is important to give people the chance to interact and give their opinions about the news they are reading and about what's around them.