After researching into other news websites, it has helped me realise that there are quite a lot of differences between that and a newspaper website. Other news websites tend to highlight the top headlines, where as newspaper websites tend to show a huge variation of news stories, big and small.
BBC Essex is one of the most unique news website, as it has numerous sections dedicated to listening, watching and reading. This website also has a weather forecast for the area. I would like to recreate this for my website.
Local paper websites made me realise that there are often many adverts, pictures and photographs, especially on the homepage. This is what I would also like to recreate on my website. Many websites, for example the Halstead Gazette, have small marquees at the top of the web page that have the most updated news stories that readers are able to click on and read the stories. After looking into how to recreate this on my website, I have found various places where I can copy and paste a HTML link so that I can create a marquee on my website. But this marquee can not be updated, it can only be a constant stream of the same words over and over, so I could make it look like a link to a page, and tell the readers to click on this to take them to a certain page, for example the month's top stories.
Overall, I feel that it would be more unique to recreate some of the things that I have seen on other news websites. But to create a realistic newspaper website, I would need to limit these aspects to a point where it would be realistic to see them on a newspaper website.
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