For a website that deals with science news based on the press releases issued by a group of US-based academic institutions, the folks at Futurity: Discover the Future have done quite a good job. A clean, vibrant home page with an unambiguous navigation interface makes the site quite an appealing one. Maybe, it could be…
Google News has started clearly identifying news sites’ blog content with a ‘blog’ label. This makes it easy for users to distinguish between such blog content and regular news stories listed on its pages. A post in the Google News blog said: "As you may know, we’ve always included some blogs from news organizations in…
Finding ways of enticing users to explore the huge reservoir of news resources hidden beneath the front and section pages of news sites is a huge challenge for them. It’s clear that conventional multi-tiered navigation can go only part of the way in opening up these resources to users in a useful manner and facilitate…
Google News had recently said in a blog post that the ‘suggest’ (or auto-suggest) feature had just been incorporated into the site. ‘Suggest’ has been a feature of mainstream Google search since 2008 and its creators had said then that it was meant to make the task of entering search terms easier by helping users…
Horizontal navigation schemes seem to be becoming more prominent and bolder, going by recent news site redesigns. The fonts have become larger and the colours more striking. Take a look.
Here's the RSS feed for the brief posts that appear in the adjacent column on the left. These are excluded from the main feed.
Will Google’s Sidewiki make a difference to news sites?
Should news sites welcome Google’s Sidewiki, or view it with caution? Or indifference? Sidewiki is a comment sharing tool that enables users to comment on a webpage or even a part of it. It is built into the Google toolbar and integrates itself with the browser, once downloaded and installed. A recent explanation on the…
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