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Web navigation for news sites
Posted on 15. Aug, 2011 by Philip in Big Trousers News, News, Web design
Category navigation for news, shopping carts and general page navigation is often misunderstood or completely ignored by some content managers.
Andy Rutledge posted an article ( News redux ) recently that attempted to explain how news websites have gone wrong in navigation design. Worth a look even if you don’t have any news articles on your site. This is the sort of stuff that seems obvious once you have read it but mistake are all too common.
Navigation should be user focused and as simple to understand as possible visually.
It is hard to believe that the Times, or any other similar publication, actually cares about the news when they treat it with this sort of indignity. Worse, the design makes it quite hard and often frustrating to simply scan the news and find stories that one might be interested in. As a news reader, I want to be able to scan headlines and logically find news I’m interested in reading. And by logically, I mean according to clear, usable, undistracted organization and filtering.
Using the New York Times as an example, let’s look at what helps make for a confusing and complex experience.
Thanks to Woo Themes who have taken this concept on board and have gone to work on this concept as a WordPress theme.