MSNBC is a comprehensive news network that covers U.S. and world news as well as weather, business, health, entertainment, sports, politics, travel, science, technology, and local news. The MSNBC website is able to provide access to information in all of these categories in an organized manner through a well-thought-out layout. Top stories are the first thing the viewer sees and a video clip is featured predominantly with a quick headline and links to other top stories. Scrolling down the home page, the viewer finds a list of more top stories and a tab for "my news" which gives the viewer stocks and weather as a default. However, the viewer can easily change the categories for himself. Following that, there are more videos and slideshows of the featured top stories. After top stories, there are several divisions of "top headlines" based on the nature of the news (i.e. Local News and Weather, U.S. and World, Politics, Business, etc.), all accompanied with various multimedia options. There are also very few distracting ads or sponsors on MSNBC's website.
For the amount of information MSNBC boasts to cover, they seem to do an exemplary job of keeping the site minimalistic in design and layout and easily navigable. Even though the home page is fairly lengthy, the links to get to other kinds of news are strategically located in lists or menus at the top, along the left hand side, and at the bottom, as well as in headline links down the main frame of the page. New and updated stories are clearly marked right before the headline or blurb. Having never used MSNBC's website before, I found it easy to customize my local news and always keep track of where I was within the site.
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