Saturday, November 22, 2008

CNN.com Disappointing

I have never gone to the CNN website and was expecting something as wonderful, colorful, and informative as the television version but unfortunately that is not what I found. I was extremely disappointed that although the site was simple it has some organizational problems.

The first thing I noticed was a list of stories under the title Other News. I can only assume that the list is in order by what CNN finds to be most important because it appears to be a random list of stories. The list is long, cluttered, and most people wouldn't have time to go through the entire list of stories. I want to be able to go to a news website and see the news in a more logical and cohesive way. When I go to a news website and the first thing I see is a list it makes me think that CNN doesn't care enough to present the news to me in a more logical way.

One of the good things that I liked about the website is the fact that there are bold headlines for some oranization of the news. The only problem is that instead of placing this organizational table of the news at the top of the website it is placed at the bottom. The site would be better presented if the bottom half of the homepage was placed at the top. I hope that at some point CNN decides to do some restructuring to their site.

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