The powerpoint wouldn’t load for me past page 11, so I didn’t know exactly what was wanted as far as the categories go. So I’m just going to describe what I see on the page.
The San Antonio Express website is probably one of the best I’ve seen on the local side of things. The homepage has everything you need right on it. The first part of the page does have a blank white space (obviously reserved for an ad) but that’s about it as far as space left unused. It has tabs at the top of the page, under it gives you some lighter stuff too, of the feature variety. It has a good size picture of the lead story with headlines on the right, similar to CNN.com, then on the far right side it has links to other categories that are not in the tabs, so unless you want to watch videos or pictures, the whole site is there for you very quickly. Within one scroll it takes you to a thing for slideshows, blogs, pics, videos, and tip stories. On the far right side it has a place for twitter, real estate and jobs which are two things people are looking for these days with the economy the way it is. It does take too long to scroll down to where the local, sports, and other category headlines are at. However, since they give you an opportunity to click on the sports page itself at the top, it isn’t a big deal. Its nice that they still give you the opportunity to scroll down and see other headlines instead of forcing you to click category just to see their headlines. Even if one scrolls to the bottom it has a box with everything a person needs. That is a very good idea, because there are many times where you may accidentally scroll too many times or hit the mouse. This way you could even scroll all the way to the bottom if you wanted and just search the categories for what you wanted. Everything is easily visible and that is something very good to have in a website.
If you a view a picture or video, it has a summary of the video with other videos on the right side and no white space. It also has a navigation bar at the bottom just like the main page so that you don’t have to click back, you can just click on the next area you want to go to. Clicking My SA takes you to the homepage and the weather is always there at the top too. I don’t really have much negative to say about it because the designer did a good job of keeping everything within one scroll, while also allowing people to scroll through other headlines if they so desire.
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