Friday 4 March 2011

Evaluation of second ancillary (Newspaper website)


This is going to be my final hompage for my website. My website followed the normal convention of normal newspaper websites; I have a banner at the top for the audience to easily identify the newspaper name which is going to be Lambeth Press. I added additional information such as the date/day and the weather at that time in London. I decided to make a box where members can sign in so Lambeth Press can update them immediately regarding the newest articles via email, members will also get certain benefits such as free delivery of their ordered newspaper  right at their door, which is going to be more convenient for them. The options of pages are clearly shown in a horizontal box and the the text are written big and bold enough for the readers to know that those are linked pages. As you can see, in this image the word 'News' is in different color because the homepage is linked to this certain page. I decided to do a link for the news page because I think it's the most relevant page to do as my product is a newspaper and my aim is to deliver news and have necessary articles that will affect my readers.  The headline is clearly is in bold and bigger texts that the rest in order to stand out from the rest of the articles and I added a photo with it so that readers can relate more to the article. It has a lead head line in bold to emphasize what the article is going to be about as well as to show that this particular part is where the article begins. The other articles are clearly displayed and divided with a line to separate the articles from each other. I again added pictures for most of the article to give my readers a better understanding of it. However, for some article I decided not to add any photograph because I didn't want the page to be full of pictures but yet not filled with texts, so I tried my best to balance both the pictures and texts. The texts are in HTML form so that it's more readable and clear.  I added few side boxes for some more article titles that readers can easily navigate, the link where they can contact us if they have any opinions or queries regarding the newspaper and I also put the advertisements in a box to keep up with the layout. The theme of blue and white is used through out all the pages for my website. 




This is my final 'News' page for my website which will be linked on to the homepage. As you can see, the articles are displayed clearly. This page is a news page so the intention of it is to display articles, therefore this page is more text based. However, I didn't want the page to look boring so I decided to add some pictures relating to some of the articles. The texts used are HTML to make it easier for readers to read the texts. I added a sidebar to summarize the other articles that didn't fit on the page. The theme of blue and white is used through out the whole page.