Researching the Website

I stared researching websites for newspapers and magazines. I had a look at some examples on the internet for both local and national newspapers. Here are some of the websites I used for research:

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/home/

Newspaper websites seem to work in a simple format, often mimicking an actual newspaper, with a white background and a masthead at the top.

Just as the actual paper, the red-top masthead is again in the top left corner. This area along with the buttons to navigat around the website stay the same throughout each page on the website.
The stories and headlines would be the same for the printpaper that day, and some of the adverts featured would also have been edited for the online paper. Here is another example of a website for a newspaper, this time for the 'Daily Mail'

The masthead for this paper has been slightly changed from that of the print paper. The font and text of the word 'mail' is the same, but they have changed the name to 'Mail Online'.
Again for this site the masthead and buttons and whole top area of the paper stay the same as you navigate through the site.
The stories themselves arent set out like in the print edition. The main headlines and stories are all shown on the front page, but normally with just a headline and picture, and maybe a small lead of rollover information taking you to the complete story on another page.
As you can see on the right hand side of the site above, a similar box layout showing a small picture and small paragraph of info is shown to entise people to read some of the smaller stories.
The sites seem slightly more colourful than the print versions themselves, along with the changing of colours used with the rollovers for linked pages. I will try to incoorporate all of these key features into my website in order for it to be realistic and easy to navigate around.