An example of a good website is www.nytimes.com. It has a simple, clean look and is easy on the eyes as it utilizes dark colors for font (black and blue) against a white background. The name is squarely in the middle and at the top of the website and the colors are used in a consistent manner with blue for headlines and black for categories. The ads are placed to the sides and are small so they are not obtrusive.
Everything is also easy to navigate with a sidebar on the left with links to different sections of the paper. Tabs are also employed to let users go to other parts of the paper that may be of particular interest, such as the print version or what are the most popular articles.
Poorly designed website:
An example of a bad website is http://www.kongkaffe.no/. The color scheme is tacky and strains the eyes and is overwhelmingly brown. The site also has a lot of unnecessary images and animated graphics that spin, blink or move but have no purpose. Fonts are not consistent and in different sizes with no rhyme or reason. Worst of all, the website loops rather annoying music while you are on the site without any option to turn it off.
There is a side bar on the left that help users navigate through the site. However it seems that the middle and right columns of the website could be utilized much better if it was more organized and had more useful information.
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