For me, an effective website is a site that displays what its content well in a manner that is accessible to its audience. To somewhat explain this, I would like to use two websites. Living in New York, I feel like the New York Times is everyone’s go-to newspaper with its well-written journalism and chic and minimal design. But, for the past year, I did not have the option of picking up the Times or just going on their website. Instead, I read Al Jazeera, another rather popular and well-written news outlet that is more well-known outside of America, and watched its news channel in South Asia. I won’t go into the politics of newspapers as I find those conversations to be too long and sometimes pointless.

The Al Jazeera website starts off with important sections that one can just jump into right away, like U.S, International, Economy and so on. But, it also has a Trending section, and it’s not the names of celebrities. Currently, what is trending, is Islamic State, Scotland and Fracking. I just think that’s so, for lack of a better term, hip as most people of my generation want whatever’s trending. And, like a normal news website, it gives you to the most important or trending news of the day. I just prefer it as it gives an equal amount of US and INTERNATIONAL news to us. Also, the main news is in just one column as you scroll down and has TAGS. Oh, the beauty of tags. The NYTimes has its news in so many columns in different sized boxes – it can just be an unwanted eye sore. Then again, I could just be biased.