Newspaper website design

One of the main areas that I have blogged about over the last couple of years has been the design and information architecture of news and newspaper websites.

You can find several series of blog posts devoted to aspects of news website design. "Wireframing the front page" looked at the different ways the front pages of print and web editions of newspapers are laid out.

"How 'Web 2.0' are British newspaper web sites?" looked at the implementation of blogs, RSS feeds and social bookmarking amongst other features, and I've also written a series looking at the contextual help around social media elements.

Other sets of articles have examined topic and keyword pages, the design and content of 404 error pages, and accessibility.

"Navigating newspapers" was a series that argued that, in news, 'we are what we label', comparing the primary navigation schemes of the major UK newspaper websites.

I've also written in depth reviews of redesigns of thelondonpaper in 2009, and The Mirror, Telegraph, Independent and Daily Mail re-designs (and beta redesigns) in 2008.

I'm particularly interested in search over news content, and in 2006 wrote a lengthy series to survey search across British online newspapers, including homepage search box placement. I subsequently devised my Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown" in 2008.

For the Inside Guardian blog, I've specifically written about my contribution to projects that redesigned guardian.co.uk site search, and The Guardian's 404 error page.

And of course, when thinking about newspaper website design, there is always The Daily Star's unique approach to promoting RSS feeds to consider...