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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. Break it down by Siberwulf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I want the ability to drag and drop various parts of the site how I want it to look (similar to google custom homepage, which I love).

    I also want to add custom feeds and have a lot of options to choose from.

    Did I mention let me customize it how i want?

  2. Portal by Baricom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The ideal news site for me would have the following four features:

    1. Unobtrusive advertising.
    1a. No "free registration" nag.
    2. Higher quality pictures and videos (in terms of size and resolution, not necessarily content).
    3. Open ended syndication - let your visitors set up your home page to show not only your news, but those of your competitors, if they choose to do so. Let them drag boxes around the page, and provide an API to get modules on your page. (RSS or Atom with support for headline images as enclosures would fit the bill nicely.)

    I currently get my news from three places: My Yahoo!, Netvibes (when I get comfortable enough about their privacy practices, it'll be my new home page), and Google News. The thing they have in common is the ability to do massive customization of their home page.