Lost lessons from the newspapers.
CyberJournalist.net: Online News Space Shuttle Columbia Crash Coverage: interesting lesson from the newspapers: "Several chose layouts they rarely use, to create additional dramatic impact." A lot of web work assumes there is one best homepage for a news site. Having a number of alternative layouts available may be really valuable, this is a lesson from the newspaper world that is lost on a lot of sites. If you have a news site, people will visit it often. Designing a variety of homepages feels like the right thing to do. Interesting.
# Feb 11, 2003