The Website

Before I started my website I decided I would look around again at real newspaper websites to get an idea of their layout and structure.I wanted my website to look professional but creative at the same time.
At first I looked at Tabloid and Broadsheet websites including 'The Sun', 'The Times', 'The Daily Star' and 'The Daily Mail'.

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As you can see the tabloid and broadsheet newspaper websites are very colourful,with photos to go with the stories aswell as text , they all convey a similar layout ,but my favourite one is the sun, its very busy with a lot going on and it just looks more interesting. Because my target audience is young I think it would be a good idea to stick to that sort of bright and bold layout as it would attract their attention more.

Below are examples of local newspaper websites including 'The Echo' 'The Yellow Advertiser' and 'The Metro'. As you can see they are quite boring in comparision to the layouts about,lacking colour and detail. They are simple and the layout they have chosen works but I think to get my website to appeal to my target audience in the correct way i will have to make my website visually more like a tabloid website but not to such an extent. To keep it looking like a local newspaper web page would, i will take into account that there not as busy because there are not that many headlining stories. So I will fit my work to suit a look that meets both tabloid and local newpaper in the middle.