The New Yorker

One website that I always use is http://newyorker.com . I really enjoy this website. It's very easy to navigate and user-friendly. A very functional and basic textual site, I believe this website falls right under the funtionality tab within the handout we read our first class The Role of Aesthetics in Web Design. It states "...effective websites where the user quickly and efficiently can obtain the desired pieces of information without being delayed by long downloading times or blind alleys when navigating on the site."

Newyorker.com's information is to the point. What they deam as the more important articles, or their agenda setting, have a bigger area on the front page. These areas include: the category in which the article falls under, the title of the article in a large, bold font, the author, the first sentence or two, and a picture. There is usually two articles like this as well as another three articles with no picture and only a couple words describing the article instead of the first sentence.

There is a table of contents at the bottom of the page of other articles. On the left side there are links to other various sections of the magazine. Just under the New Yorker title, there are tabs for different categories of the magazine.

The New Yorker's audience is geared to more information rather than flashy images, which is what the site gives, mainly text. Referring back to The Role of Aesthetics in Web Design, "Functionality has the highest priority and aesthetics are only included to support it. This is typically the case in the genre of information sites, where the primary purpose is to get the needed information as quickly and efficiently as possible." Though this website is nothing exciting with its black and white page and minimal images, it is an information site and its primary attention is made excellently.