Grids are an essential part to website designs, mostly because navigation is so key for effectiveness. While researching for this assignment I've noticed that a lot of websites follow a 3 column grid (and my example is no different). I stuck with something I see every day, my homepage. A snapshot of CNN.com is shown below.
As you can see, the website is pretty well organized, with a set color palette, and user friendly appeal. But a lot of it has to do with the grid organization of the website. The top of the left column showcases a major news story, and big headlines are followed beneath it. In the middle, there are 10-15 quick newsworthy lines and on the right end, stock info, videos, and polls are available for CNN.com's audience. Overall, I really like the design of this website. In fact, when I was picking which news site I wanted as my home, I picked CNN because of it's organization of information and accessibility.
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Although it's not my homepage I also visit CNN multiple times during the day! Obviously there are tons and tons of news cites but to me CNN is the best. I guess I never really took the time to actually ask myself why I preferred CNN over the other, but the truth is it's just so much clearer and less cluttered. They still manage to pack in all the news and create an obviously hierarchy but it is not cluttered r overwelming. The way that news is broken into categories also makes it easy to find the story you're looking for. I'm actually suprised at myself for also not having though of CNN initially as a website with great use of grids!
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