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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Continued from Last Post

The articles used active voice and utilized the inverted pyramid style. There were several sidebars containing information about most popular stories or top news stories. There were also ads located in sidebars. There are absolute links to similar stories, but they are not necessarily connected to the article. They are located in a bar at the bottom. The headlines for the stories are different. The online one is longer and more descriptive. I think they do this in order to capture the users attention and get them to click on the article.

This post is a continuation of the previous one. Sorry. I didn't get your e-mail. I thought we were just writing down our thoughts. :)

Print vs. Online

We looked at an article in the Post Dispatch titled "Floods but hard-drive supply." It talked about the business problems for hard-drive manufactures caused by the flooding in Thailand.

The print version of the article that we looked at consisted of a three-column story with a picture and caption. This article was actually taken from the Associated Press.

The online version that was posted on stltoday.com was the exact same article without a picture. There were multiple social media aspects allowing users to share the article on facebook, twitter, blogspot, etc. There was also an area to post comments. We also noticed that the article had been updated about 18 hours after it had been posted.

As we continued looking for this article, we found the same article on yahoo.com. There was a difference, though. On Yahoo, the article was longer. So, the Post Dispatch chose to cut out some of the information before they printed or posted the article.

We looked back at stltoday.com again and noticed that there were very similar articles on the website posted a few days earlier. These were listed at the bottom of the page of the first online article we looked at. One of these articles was the same as the one printed in the paper and the first online article, but it had more information (like the article on Yahoo). This article also had the same picture that was printed in the paper. Another article similar to our first article was extremely condensed and only talked about one aspect of the issue.

We noticed a lot of cutting of text to fit the purpose of the different articles and the different news sources. Social media aspects were also used quite a bit.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Class Project #3

I created my class project by creating a div for navigation on my first page. I then created a css page which I linked to my nav1 page. Next, I saved my nav1 page as nav2 and nav3 creating two copies of my first page. Finally, I added the links to all of the navigation text. And now, I am writing about it in this blog! The End
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