Apr 03 2008
Critical Website Reviews – Part 3: The Post
This is the third in a series of posts all this week taking a hard look at the websites of the major Toronto dailies. Today we look at canada.com’s flagship, the National Post.
There is really not much to be said here that hasn’t already been said. The Post has contextual menus, good story tools, “most popular” widgets, and excellent RSS feeds broken up very finely into categories. On the ugly side, it has the most front page links of any of the four papers we’re looking at (382), and also the most validation errors (317). That’s a mess.
The site has a couple of things that stand out for me: an awesome Flash-based video browser (that takes a bit too long to load) and an excellent (and prominent) set of blogs.
I’m starting to think a summary of the features and drawbacks of all four sites in chart form might be most useful.
Overall mark: D.
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