Another eyetracking study, this time looking into best practices for “carousel” style featured story slots on news site home pages. I’m a bit of a hater when it comes to these, but I’m glad to see there appears to be a right way to do it.
Tag: online+news+design
Standard templates aren’t such a bad idea | yelvington.com
Steve’s notes on what can go wrong with news site design and how to rein in the client from time to time.
El Comercio Perú | Audios de la corrupción, Paro de la CGTP, Selección nacional, Temblor en Lima, Noticias Perú
A gorgeous newspaper.com homepage. They lead with video, follow it with a brilliant breaking news grid that rotates through a variety of sections, then the reader finds themselves in front of a console of information, from soccer schedules (mapped) to stock markets.
Carrington Theme Documentation : Crowd Favorite
Alex King unleashes a new framework theme for WordPress. Carrington is far closer to a CMS than a blog template.
palewire / Five ways your data app can catch the big news hook.
A manifesto on news-driven-development, built around the concrete example of presenting data from the LA train crash last Friday as evergreen information, rather than a series of text blobs.
palewire / Five ways your data app can catch the big news hook.
How we read online. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine
Detailed notes on what links, subheads, lists, and reasonably sized paragraphs do for the readability of your online screeds. And new stories, yes? via Rex, among others.
MSNBC Redesigns – Taste The Rainbow – Mike Davidson
Intelligent conversation about the redesign’s bits and pieces in the post and comment thread here.
MSNBC
Redesign. Looks good, lets users move around stuff on the homepage, which is cute. I’m still trying to figure out why I like Google News better, ugly as it is, than any other national news site. Big headlines?
The importance of a breaking news design – Lost Remote TV Blog
The SoCal fires are a good reminder to be ready with a template or two to cover a giant breaking news story.
The importance of a breaking news design – Lost Remote TV Blog
Golden Gate [X]Press :: Home
San Francisco State’s student newspaper redesigns online, with an even-more prominent multimedia-as-centerpiece player on the homepage along with lots of hard news.
Ryan Sholin 