A serious flaw in the design of newspaper websites

Most news sites are confused by the plethora of links and content. Almost all news sites in the photo processing are not professional, the design of the same page every day, there is no level of reporting arrangements, the link to repeat the homepage. The design of classified ads is poor, so that the reader can not find the information needed, the advertising processing is also extremely improper, so that the effectiveness of the total loss.
The strong reaction, from a web designer from a newspaper in Virginia, believed that the Internet news revolution of the past decade, most of which had websites but was wrong in basic design, is now the time to conceive the next 10 years of newspaper web design.
The designer, Alan Jacobson, is the executive chief of Brass tacks design, and he is not a special person to pick on.
Make a little change every day
The most obvious flaw of many sites is that the format is the same every day. The front page of the newspaper, according to the occurrence of the news every day for different choreography, but the homepage of the site has not changed. Jacobson said that they are limited to the framework of the Web page, to fill the news, regardless of the importance of journalism, the title is the same size, no adjustment to reflect the news value.
Too easy to find examples, Knight Ridder's newspaper is an obvious example. Each newspaper web site uses the same framework, regardless of major news, that looks similar (e.g. Miami Herald's miami.com and San Jose Mercury meraurynews.com)
If you agree with Jacobson's ideas, this phenomenon expands to the entire newspaper industry, from small to large websites. NYTimes.com is certainly one of the best news websites in the world, but rigid in a fixed frame, the left title, plus a top right corner of three