Washingtonpost.com is one example of a well-designed Web site that makes its content easy to read and navigate. It has a main story and photo to attract the reader to the headline news of the minute, with the most previous past posts directly below it. The Web site banner is easy to find and makes it clear what the Web site is at the top. The main colors of text on the page are black and blue so as not to be too distracting. Also, each category of news throughout the page is separate in a nice and neat box which makes navigation that much easier.Bad design:
The Jerusalem Post's Web site, Jpost.com, is similar in layout to the Washington Post's with its main news at the top of the page accompanied by a large photo, but the site overall is much more difficult to read. The main obstacle to the page is its overload of ads, which make it confusing to differentiate between what is news and what is not. They have a large ad at the top of the page about the same size as the flag that reads The Jerusalem Post that one almost isn't sure whose page it is right away. The rest of the news sections are broken down into columns, but those are also interspersed with columns of ads and classifieds. There are also a lot of different colors used throughout aside from the standard blue or black text, such as bright red, green and orange, which makes it hard for the eye to focus on one section at a time.
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