So my main concerns with the website are the navigation, organization, and hierarchy.
The navigation for the news site isn't bad by any means, it's just a bit ordinary. While I like it's simplicity, it's a bit boring, and could be better utilized in the pages structure rather than throwing it up at the top of the page.
The organization could be better as well. I hope that in my new sectioning of News, Life, Entertainment, and Business their subcategories can be major content limiters. Upon loading the website, the user is bombarded with information and columns of text that span down well beyond 4 times the computer screen height. Better sectioning could solve this issue. I would also like to include a section for the day's articles, the old articles, and one for the new breaking news articles that are added throughout the day. This way, there is an end to the content unless you want to browse through the added content. Color is also used, but it tends to get lost among the images and such. Rather than colored banners, colored fields might be more appropriate.
Finally, the hierarchy is a mess. It's true that an understanding of hierarchy has been applied to these articles, but here are so many different colors and sizes and images and ads that the hierarchy has strictly been limited to size. Having so many articles on one page is likely the issue, and a better organization of those articles will help the hierarchy to stand out once more. I also think that a past read or interest based system can help customize hierarchy to each user. One article might be important to one person, but not to another. So I would like to use the listed order of articles to influence hierarchy, as well as creating a website awareness to what the user has read in the past to better tailor the hi-lighted articles for the reader.
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