Over the course of the year, the WINOL website (www.winol.co.uk) has taken on a variety of
faces as we try to modernise and build a more user-friendly site. However, there
is certainly still room for improvement which is why, over the last few weeks,
I have been creating some new designs and feel I’ve finally come up with
something worth publishing. The design attempts to draw on features of both other news websites as well as mobile
applications which are becoming more and more popular ways of finding out the
news.
Starting by introducing a colour scheme and taking elements
from our original site, I created a front page that incorporates all the
various aspects of the site, from news to sport and from radio to features.
The idea is to have a bar at the top that scrolls with you
to make it easy to navigate from one page to the next. It includes a drop down
menu with all the various sections of both news and features on it.
News:
In pictures:
As with many news sites, I have decided it would be good to
include an “In Pictures” section that would combine the news in brief with
pictures from the events. This would mean, though, that our reports are likely
to need camera training and will have to remember to take pictures for each
story, something that I have been encouraging them to do already as
photographing things as you work looks particularly good on our social media
profiles, particularly twitter.
Features:
Radio:
Starting this morning, WINOL has taken over a regular slot
on Sound Radio - the University of Winchester’s student radio station – every Tuesday
from 10am to 2pm. We have decided to record each show and create a pod cast of
the best bits using Sound Cloud. Therefore, it is important that we have a radio
page both with the podcasts and, ideally, a live payer for the site (or,
failing this, a link to www.sound-radio.co.uk)
Sport:
