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What Do You Want on a News Website?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the information-that-matters dept.

SomethingBig asks: "The BBC is asking people to redesign their homepage, with the best design winning an Apple laptop. With news websites becoming ever more crowded and cluttered, what is really the most important information for a news organization's homepage? Should it contain local news? Traffic? Weather? What type of information would you want on the BBC's homepage (or CNN's if you're in America)?"

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  1. Re:800x600 still relatively popular. by great+throwdini · · Score: 4, Informative
    For a website that is aimed at non-technical users, it's probably too early to ignore 800x600 usability.

    ...or those who are running at higher resolutions, but prefer not to full-screen browser sessions. Those types always seem to be overlooked when people start to throw about statistics of this sort.