The New York Times Website
Rhetoric Analysis: The New York Times is one of the most well known newspapers in America. It’s website is just as popular maybe even more, being the number one visited newspaper website in the nation. This page is made for their audience which is all of America and its diversity along with it, therefore all kinds of people of different cultures and diversities visit this site looking for information on things going on in today’s world that they need to know or can relate to. At the top of the page you can select the language immediately as well as on side you can choose the categories all separated into different categories as well. Also, there are commercials on the site that appeal to the viewer based off of the viewers sites they visit often or subject/products they type in a lot.
Design Analysis: The design for the sight is very simple and well organized to help the viewer find what they’re looking for. There’s always a larger picture placed in the middle to state importance with smaller thumbnails that you can click on to go into further detail on subjects less important than the first article. The type for secondary headlines are blue, bold and large so you can easily pick out which ones you want to read with no struggle and the text underneath it is simply black and clear. The advertisements are placed strategically so that when you scroll down or read into an article or headline, your eyes are led into the advertisement itself allowing you to read everything and view the ads at the same time.
Design & Rhetorical Analysis: I feel as if the page did a great job design wise to meet the needs of the audience. The organized topics on the side and the language selection is definitely something they looked into when considering who is viewing their page and what they can do to keep them there rather than some other newspaper website. Although it is a newspaper website, and newspapers mostly appeal to an older crowd, we are a newer generation with more complexities. We actually involve ourselves in politics and whats going on in the world. The younger crowd is on the rise when it comes to being active in world information. Therefore I think more topics should be added to the list that appeal to youth as well as make the website less dull and add creativity to it, with colors and more personality from the writers and journalists themselves.
Copyright & Attribution: Each article has the writers name to give credit to the author that took time to write the article. When you click on the article, on the page it leads you to it will have the author’s name hyperlinked you can click on it and it will take you to a page about him or her. Also, at the very bottom of the page show the ownership of The New York Times Company to the website itself.