I decided the review The Age website because it holds large amounts of information on varied topics. When you initially look at the home page, it looks busy and its hard to work out where to fins information. My eyes were first drawn to the story on the left with a large picture, and then to the advertisement on the right, completely skipping the main stories in the middle column. But the first initial glance, it is much easier to read the main stories and choose to read any that may interest. It is not so easy to navigate back to the home page or relocate stories on this website, but it is tailored to browsing the news. For easier access and relevance, the website will create a menu for your state and will test your internet speed so you can watch videos quickly.
For more experienced users they will know what news they want to read and can go straight to that category in the menu at in the center at the top. As you get to the bottom of each story and small pop-up comes suggesting other stories in that category and other popular stories. This makes usability very easy and as the news changes every day, memorability is not a major issue and browsing and finding new information is encouraged. For regular users, they will be able to optimise searching by choosing countries, people or even companies to find news they are interested to them. But beyond that there is little flexability in the website.
www.theage.com.au
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