I checked out a special report from USA Today's website and looked at a story about College Coaches making millions.
What is nice about this Special Report is the graphical links and sidebars that have graphs and more in-depth information that normal stories don't usually have.
This report is designed well because the pictures are contrasting in size and has nice graphics and images to go along with the story. The top of the page definitely draws the readers attention well.
The journalistic value of this is the in-depth coverage of the story. These special reports go far more in-depth and give more information than a normal story would give.
Apr 17, 2009
Apr 13, 2009
Bad Web Design
So for this post I will offer you an example of a poor website construction. The site that I found was www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/ and I will further explain why this site lacks unity, contrast, hierarchy and consistency.
This site is lacking in unity because nothing looks like it belongs; everything is in different colors, fonts and styles. Nothing goes together in this site.
This site does however contrast, but far overdoes this and makes everything very difficult to read.
This site lacks hierarchy because although everything contrasts and there is no unity, nothing appears to be dominant except maybe the red sidebar with the lime green writing over it. It is not laid out in order of importance.
This site is very consistent ... consistently bad. If you click on a link within the unreadable writing you go to a new page that looks completely different from the home page, but just as ugly. No templates are used to create any consistency within this web page.
So there you have it, click on the link above and enjoy the world's worst web site and see just how bad it should never be. I hope I get 100 percent for this Ms. Otanez.
This site is lacking in unity because nothing looks like it belongs; everything is in different colors, fonts and styles. Nothing goes together in this site.
This site does however contrast, but far overdoes this and makes everything very difficult to read.
This site lacks hierarchy because although everything contrasts and there is no unity, nothing appears to be dominant except maybe the red sidebar with the lime green writing over it. It is not laid out in order of importance.
This site is very consistent ... consistently bad. If you click on a link within the unreadable writing you go to a new page that looks completely different from the home page, but just as ugly. No templates are used to create any consistency within this web page.
So there you have it, click on the link above and enjoy the world's worst web site and see just how bad it should never be. I hope I get 100 percent for this Ms. Otanez.
Apr 9, 2009
Is Blogging Journalism? Part 1
Just minutes ago I took a look at the "Big Blog" from the Seattle PI web site and I am left wondering how anyone would consider this journalism at all?
Sure these blogs give you some news, but just giving news is not what makes journalism what it really is.
In J101 with Andrea Otanez you learn something called TIPPSC (pronounced tip-see) which is the basis on deciding what is news. Timeliness, Impact, Prominence, Proximity, Singularity and Conflict/Controversy (and no Andrea didn't need my book for that).
The point of referring to that is, that journalists use TIPPSC to figure out what is the most important news and they dig deeper and add depth to that news.
One story that just came to the "Big Blog" as I am writing this is a post called "Bring on the Chocolate Easter bunnies". Now sure this offers a tidbit of information like when the first chocolate Easter bunnies were brought to the U.S., but how this can be considered journalism is beyond me.
No offense to writer Monica Guzman who is just doing her job as a blogger.
Sure these blogs give you some news, but just giving news is not what makes journalism what it really is.
In J101 with Andrea Otanez you learn something called TIPPSC (pronounced tip-see) which is the basis on deciding what is news. Timeliness, Impact, Prominence, Proximity, Singularity and Conflict/Controversy (and no Andrea didn't need my book for that).
The point of referring to that is, that journalists use TIPPSC to figure out what is the most important news and they dig deeper and add depth to that news.
One story that just came to the "Big Blog" as I am writing this is a post called "Bring on the Chocolate Easter bunnies". Now sure this offers a tidbit of information like when the first chocolate Easter bunnies were brought to the U.S., but how this can be considered journalism is beyond me.
No offense to writer Monica Guzman who is just doing her job as a blogger.
Apr 8, 2009
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