By Steve Outing, Senior Editor for the Poynter Institute
Editor & Publisher
Published on 3/17/2004
Excerpt:
Online-news pioneer Howard Finberg, a faculty member of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and author of a textbook on news design, says there are some very effective news site designs out there. He agrees with Jacobson that too many newspaper sites have over-filled their home pages. “I wonder if we have let our desire to get stuff out on the home page hurt usability,” Finberg says.
Still, Finberg is concerned that eliminating navigation duplication on home pages could hurt usability. Recognize that there could be a wide variety of ways that people interact with Web pages and don’t get dogmatic about placing things in only one place, he advises. The design nirvana is to have a page that someone who’s never been to your site before can easily navigate around. Eliminating duplication might run counter to that goal.
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