Comments on: Taking a ride with carousels http://www.ojr.org/p1639/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=p1639 Focusing on the future of digital journalism Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Suter http://www.ojr.org/p1639/#comment-1670 David Suter Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:20:42 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1639#comment-1670 useful article – thanks

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]]> By: Sam Til http://www.ojr.org/p1639/#comment-1669 Sam Til Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:39:17 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1639#comment-1669 Yes, Good R&D. full state report ..which really helpful.

]]> By: 173.116.33.245 http://www.ojr.org/p1639/#comment-1668 173.116.33.245 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:55:51 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1639#comment-1668 It doesn’t seem surprising to me that both the navigational control and hot spot studies were inconclusive; USA Today suffers from clutter, a common current malady of online news sites. The layout generates a checkerboard effect with a lack of enough weight given to more important stories. Also, a quick count of the “href=” tags in the page’s source shows 220 external links presenting the reader with way too many options.

As a crude example of the weight failing, any dead-tree newspaper editor knows that the headline/story “Asteroid to collide with Earth tomorrow” and “Francisco Franco still dead” are not the same. One warrants above-the-fold and a 72-point banner. The other does not. Why is this such a difficult concept for web layout? And sorry, but there are no extra points for responding that the technology won’t support it.

]]> By: John Guenther http://www.ojr.org/p1639/#comment-1667 John Guenther Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:26:47 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1639#comment-1667 If a site has more than one item that it is promoting, the carousel is one of the best tools. When done right, it draws people visually to multiple, select stories without making people scroll one bit.
While the dots version encouraged people to use the carousel more, I wonder if it focused people too much. The subjects didn’t seem to look at the navigation bar, the list-based main story bar, or the advertisement.
One of the best automatic carousels that I’ve seen is on the IGN PC game news site (http://pc.ign.com/). It uses clickable, titled thumbnails with arrow navigation. There’s also a frame around the thumbnail of the focused story. It very much requests the attention of the readers’ eyeballs and it’s simple to see what stories are on tap that day.
What happens, though, when more and more people use news feed readers? Will these front page gadgets stay relevant?

]]> By: Josh Bandes http://www.ojr.org/p1639/#comment-1666 Josh Bandes Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:56:35 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1639#comment-1666 Very interesting article. Did you find information on how long a user stayed on each of the different pages?

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]]> By: 24.203.225.157 http://www.ojr.org/p1639/#comment-1665 24.203.225.157 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:10:22 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1639#comment-1665 This needs to go to a more basic level: What about no carousels at all? Are we overwidgetizing our homepages?

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