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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. Someone will say it.... by XBL · · Score: 5, Funny

    Porn! It would fit well into the BBC website main page. Please no British chicks...

  3. Less bloat by iriefrank · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I load and reload news sites hundreds of times a day. Strip the bloat out, and let me do it quickly. The new NYT layout is fine as layout goes (though I still like the old site better) but all the Flash and proliferation of tables upon tables makes the site load at a crawl.

    In short: strip Flash out. Video in links only. Make it snappy.

  4. I want news by Johnso · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I want news, not sensationalism. Drop the misleading headlines and transparent opinion pieces.

    I read the news to make my decisions, not to have them made for me.

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  5. 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.