An evaluation of the front page design of the guardian's online newspaper from 1996 to 2015

Abstract EN

Online newspapers can be distinguished by speed and immediacy, it can be known as the online publications, which collect news items.

This is linked to relations between change and action.

This research paper aims to draw the developed temporalities of the online journalistic design since the first news sites in 1995 to 2015.

The analytical point for this is that such period time should be recognized as a complex interaction between graphic elements on different and overlapping levels of the online newspaper's front page.

This research paper consequently applies a layout for online newspapers analysis that primarily focuses on the journalistic design level over three consecutive time periods, to illustrate the relationships between the graphical elements that change in time periods differently, and the research samples were obtained for analysis of the newspaper The Guardian Online from 1996 to the present through the Internet Archive (www.archive) website.

Time periods refer to the interactive levels combined with the press design according to available digital capabilities.

One of the most important findings of the research is that there is an evolution in the planning of the first page according to the possibilities available to the web.

It began in 1996 by planning two columns.

Each column contains a number of rectangles window shape.

Each window contains a main section of the newspaper.

browse to a page containing the topics in this section, which is based on texts only, and with the development of the emergence of more than five columns (columns) with all the graphic elements (pictures, drawings, texts), with the main headings and excerpts in the grid design based, with hyperlinks to the possibility of navigation to full story within the website, and by using of colors completely.