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During the course, the practical learning of building website as in functioning like an actual news website is helpful in various ways like executing a real life news posting scenario. This course also taught me imperative steps in handling online news and how to integrate and initiate a news website on my own.
Online websites are deemed as an alternative media for many people in current times, rather than buying printed sources alot of people are more into online news. This course showcased the importance of the online journalism and needs of creating a website to give access to free news among citizens whom are requiring news on a daily basis
The website created is of news blogging natured and it is of informative in tone. The colours and visuals chosen matches the theme of the website because the news theme is of a basic news website the colors chosen were more neutral than vivid to give the aspect of formal news reading. The styles chosen also has appropriate template designed mainly for news website. A very simplistic and minimalist approach was chosen to not outperform the website
The essence of the content is more crucial then colors and design style
Various media materials are incorporated like mostly royalty free images to showcase in the gallery and thumbnails of the news post. The photos are of original websites and mostly are legitimate websites. The materials mainly the images are picked accordingly to the tone of the news and the story. The deployment of image also connotes the message of the news through visual depiction.
For example, the visual included are of simple description of what the news is going to be like in general like for a hard news the image would be something like more in serious tone and expressive images and for human interest stories a more memorable and places of interest images are used
The emphasis on headlines, sub headers and pull quotes has been followed and noted through the process of formatting where the usage of Star News and BBC styled themes is entailed and encouraged to be used. The pull quotes is mostly incorporated in feature story and the headlines are crucial in a news style story where every news is included with headlines and subheaders. Appropriate usage of other page furnitures is provided like navigation to the necessary parts of the website and a user friendly interface like a rather simplistic buttons to navigate and understand.
The site is completely user friendly in terms of the design, navigation and wordings. The users reading the website won't have hard time accessing the contents and is more easier to access because of the availability of the contents block in front of the website itself. The links are properly and carefully linked for users to click without hassle and indirection. Inclusion of proper content with organized flow also allows users to attain information easily without clicking numerous links and pop ups.
The sources of news are findable in the sense of easier showcasing of the whole content. Users need not to worry of finding and looking for the content they wanted to read.
The comment sections are opened for further feedback from users this is to ensure balanced communication among user and the news written. This is also to develop mutual connection and deeper understanding on what are users needs and preference in a more sensible way like knowing through feedbacks is important for news page to show growth in certain aspects.
The news website is opportunistic meaning users have their chances on giving out comments and press and voice freedom is prevalent in online news currently. Closing the comment sections is like basically violates freedom of speech and this news websites focuses more on freedom of press
The remarks of users are none yet considering the website to be in a newer developmental stages. Honestly no feedbacks is seen yet and in future more feedback are expected for improvements.
Usage of social media is crucial in delivering the news and extensive usage of social media will garber more user traffic to the website and this will cause more engagement rates for the news published. For now the website uses Twitter and Facebook as the carrier social media for the sharing of news contents published in website to garber more users and create awareness of the news to the mass public.
A fantastic chance to interact with your consumers is through social media. You may obtain feedback on your goods or services as well as reply to comments and inquiries. Additionally, you may utilise social media to establish connections with potential clients and develop a brand community.
You may establish a distinctive online presence by connecting your website to your social media profiles. This implies that customers will be able to locate and interact with your company online with ease. Social media may also be used to communicate your special narrative and establish a strong brand identity.
You can separate out from the competition and draw potential clients with a distinctive web presence. Additionally, it might assist you in gaining the respect and trustworthiness of potential clients.
The social media accounts will be included in the website for users to directly click the website in favor to read the original source much like how Malaysiakini and Free Malaysia today uses Twitter for postings and garner comments and clicks per view for their news articles
In this age drawing readers is easier through social media accounts because majority of citizens utilize social media for news, just linking the social media page will make users click it and view at once
Search Engine optimization (SEO) is the keywords of the news website found on the web. The utilization of SEO is prevalent in the website. Possible navigation of website links on the internet and appropriate keywords will lead to the discovery of the website.This website as said is in developmental stage and is testing on SEO availability and to prove the keyword optimization in major search engines like Google. The SEO setting sin WIX is easier and convenient in just few clicks, you can see how it links to Google, Twitter and Facebook where all the contents will be posted automatically and it's just a few settings to adjust and you will be redirected to the social media accounts linked.
You must comprehend search intent and provide content that reflects it if you want to appear on Google's first page of results.
Four common forms of search intent are as follows:
When someone is attempting to learn more about something, it is informative
Navigation: the process of finding a certain website or page.
Commercial: when a potential customer wants to learn more before buying
when someone intends to carry out an activity or make a transaction
Images play a crucial role in improving a visitor’s user experience.
When used the right way, images can contribute to your site’s overall SEO and boost organic traffic.
Here are four ways to optimize your images:
Images are often the largest contributor to overall page size and loading time. And page speed is an important ranking factor.
The first step is picking the best file format.
The most commonly used image formats on the web are JPEG and PNG.
Both formats use different compression techniques. Which is why the file sizes between these two can be dramatically different.
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Firstly, the SEO in the website is straightforward and convenient in delivering the outcome