Whilst planning our website we decided to research further into depth other news websites to give us an idea of how to set it out and inspiration so that it would suit our target audience perfectly. We looked at CBBC News round, BBC News and ITV News to guide us through the process of making our News Channel Website.
CBBC News round was one of our main inspirations when desgining and producing our news channel website, we thought the layout was good and eye catching and specifically desgined for the younger generation (our target audience). We admired how the stories were set out with the main being at the top and the largest with other interesting stories underneath which we took into consideration, alongside this we also specifically liked the quizzes/competition which were on the right hand side of the page which we thought had a great impact on children.
One more thing we really liked about the CBBC News round website were the buttons at the top of the page, we thought they were bold and effective each one having it's own colour when hovered over which we thought was very impressive!
ITV News was another website we looked at however didn't find very interesting, the website is mainly based for the older generation of which we are not concentrating on therefore didn't come into very much use. Whilst skimming through there site we realized that all news stories were just simply listed with a brief summary underneath which once again didn't appeal to us at all however one thing we did think was excellent was the Twitter updates, Twitter being something continuously used by the younger generation alongside other social networking sites such as Facebook we thought it would be excellent if we made our own account and so we did (@RAFA_NEWS). Having been inspired by this we decided to put this into our website too so now we just need to begin making it!
BBC News was one of the last news channel websites we looked at, once again we weren't appealed to there layout as it was based at the older generation again however we did take into account the layout slightly, we liked the fact that the main story was the largest with a brief summary next to it and then the 2 other latest stories were underneath but smallest, we thought this was nice and eye catching in some aspects therefore took it into consideration. We also liked how there were various other stories on the right hand site listed with very small sentences about what they were about. We took as much into account as we could which we thought would contribute towards making our website and now the fun begins!
Thanks!
Team; Kenneth - Emma - Natalie.
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