Comments on: NPR.org’s new website: The challenge of real-time http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/07/27/19796?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nprorgs-new-website-the-challenge-of-real-time Rex Hammock's Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob Robinson http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/07/27/19796/comment-page-1#comment-342503 Rob Robinson Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:42:41 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/07/27/19796#comment-342503 Thanks for the heads up about the Web site overhaul, Rex. I think you make a very good point here: <i>This morning, the hosts were still using the same line, “Go to NPR.org” with invitations regarding specific content, but the front page does little to provide the listener with an idea of where to find the content.</I> To me, this is comparable to magazines that tease a story on their cover and then make it difficult to find the story in their table of contents. I love that many magazines now have the page numbers for stories on their covers. NPR needs to keep making online content that they reference on the Web easily visible from the home page. Thanks for the heads up about the Web site overhaul, Rex. I think you make a very good point here:

This morning, the hosts were still using the same line, “Go to NPR.org” with invitations regarding specific content, but the front page does little to provide the listener with an idea of where to find the content.

To me, this is comparable to magazines that tease a story on their cover and then make it difficult to find the story in their table of contents. I love that many magazines now have the page numbers for stories on their covers. NPR needs to keep making online content that they reference on the Web easily visible from the home page.

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