The home page of the Suffolk Free Press website uses a wider colour scheme than the Halstead Gazette. This could portray a younger target market and audience than the Halstead Gazette. The main recognisable colour of the newspaper is turquoise/blue. Along the top right corner of the homepage, there are button-links to different pages of the websites in different colours. This links all of the text in that colour together, allowing the readers to understand what each section features. The printscreen below also uses a colour scheme to easily recognise the difference between each section of the website. An image/logo is used for each link as well. This section is at the bottom of the page. Similar to the Halstead Gazette, the Suffolk Free Press has date and time included on their homepage.
Below, I have printscreened a login/registry for a free membership to the website. This allows people to recieve emails about recent and updated stories
The section below gives a summary of news headlines in the area, along with sports headlines. There is also an icon of the current front page and the website visitors can click on this to read the front page story, the icon is just big enough to be able to read the headline of the story, this attracts people to reading the article if the title interests them, which is why headlines and article titles have to be catchy, yet do not give away the details of the story.
On the Suffolk Free Press website, there is a section called "local pages today" where you can type in the name or type of business in a specific area to find the service that is needed. This attracts another section of an audience, if you need to find a service, people may know that the Suffolk Free Press offer this.
The stories on every website that I have looked into, they are up to date by by the day exactly, or the previous day, depending on how far into the website one looks for a story. If you want tto search a story, then they will be older, seeing as the story was written when the event occured. For my website, after realising that real newspaper websites are being constantly updated with new stories, I am going to post-date the stories that I write so that they are all one date or around the same date. The stories on the home page will all be dated the same, so that it appears they are as up to date as possible. The home page of a newspaper should have the most recent stories on.
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