Overview of Local Newspaper Webpages

Willesden and Brent Times 24

The homepage for the Willesden and Brent Times 24 is presented in a somewhat scattered manner. There is a masthead in the top left corner, however it is over shadowed by the animated advertisement next to it. Underneath the masthead there is a bar with links to other local newspaper sites, underneath this is a screen wide advertisement banner. On the left of the screen there is a menu with links to different sections of of the website, in the centre there are articles arranged in text bubbles, there is a head line on each followed by a small part of the article, the sections are arranged underneath each other and are categorised as News, Sport and Arts and Features.
The colour scheme is white background with Red, and black text, with colourful, animated advertisements for "London Fans Forum", "Arabian Nights", local businesses and other local newspapers.





Harrow Observer.co.uk:

The homepage for The Harrow Observer.co.uk is presented in a neat, simple layout. There is a masthead in the top left corner of "Harrow Observer.co.uk" to show readers that this site is part of the The Harrow Observer. Immediately beneath the masthead there is a guide bar which contains hotspots that take the user to whichever part of the site they desire (Hotspots are labelled as News, Sport, Communities, Videos & Pics, Lifestyle, Classifieds, Forums, Weather and Sitemap) . The overall colour theme of this page is a white background with either blue or red bars providing a background to the headers of different sections.
Underneath the guide bar and advertisements there is a flash slide show embedded which contains news about Harrow and the local area, the slide show automatically flicks through as to catch the readers eye.
Then there are headlines from other sections, but these are mainly just head lines that act as links to the story itself. The page also contains advertisements by Google, O2, Premier inn etc.