This is the web component of my Cazenovia Sentinel project (the Adventureads Web site is a modification of the basic structure I used for this). To design a breaking news Web site I looked at various news organizations’ sites to get some inspiration. I found myself drawn to the BBC’s site and CNN.com. I liked the layouts, color usage, and the way they treated elements like breaking news boxes and media players. They also felt cleaner than other sites I had seen. The large quote region at the top of my Web site is inspired by CNN’s breaking news box. In my case, I felt the voices of the people in Cazenovia needed to be highlighted.
The use of the colors grey and red, though prolific around the web, actually came from the colors I chose for the physical paper edition of The Sentinel. //
