Interactivity analysis

Now, let’s examine and critique the various visual aspects of both local newspaper Web sites.

Graphics: The only graphic visible on either of their homepages is an image of the NASDAQ stocks, courtesy of BigCharts.com.

Illustrations: SunSentinel.com has a blog called News Illustrated that highlights the work of the newspaper’s graphic designers and cross promote a weekly print feature by the same name. Sometimes it features online only illustrations, such as this. But PDF versions of the weekly News Illustrated feature are available too.

Each print version of the story has a refer to the blog.
It’s supposed to turn readers into viewers. When the refers are on every story, much like taglines (e-mail addresses and phone numbers) it works. When they’re not, they don’t.