Newspaper Site Features
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- mrdobolina
What do you like to see on newspaper web sites? Are there any unique features that you enjoy? RSS feeds, other types of delivery systems, email alerts etc.
Anything will help me out. Thanks.
- cancer-man0
1. Search.
2. Archives
- mrdobolina0
got that covered. more so looking for unique features. But thanks.
- cancer-man0
Emailing articles.
- zombiewoof0
1.) Links to related blogs, especially if the paper's own writers/editors have them... seems to be a trnd these days.
Take a look at this list from CyberJounalist.net it's got some good stuff on it.
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/n…
cheers.
- akoni0
classifieds.....so i can find my next ex-wife...
haha jk...
but really just easy on the eyes use of type when reading stories, and not so much garbage ads around it to distract
- mrdobolina0
rock, you guys rule.
zombie, that site is excellent. Thanks.
- exador10
a comments section.
this is important i think....on some newspaper sites, you can respond to articles, on others you can't..
also, a very good image gallery, if there are multiple images for a story...for example..the one at www.wired.com totally sucks ass...its horrible...
there are some very very good ones available now, i think they're done in java script, etc...
a map-mashup, showing where stories are taking place...to give a geographical perspective on an issue...ie, the current crisis in the middle east...where exaclty ARE hezbollah..where exactly IS that latest firebombing etc...
- exador10
here's an example mashup...
my company Pentura did for our local community..
http://www.mcpa.on.ca/crimeIncid…tracks crime in the suburb of Mississauga...
updated weekly...:)
- Mimio0
Good cross-referencing to previously published articles available in the side column.
- MLP0
i'll back up the GOOD search.. sometimes you can't subtract words, etc.
i'd like to see video if possible, more pictures. so many times is there but one tiny image that you can't even enlarge.