Index AltaV<strong>is</strong>ta, 75 AOL–Time Warner, 33 Appleyard, Brian, 26 Archiving, 23, 138–40 Argus Clearinghouse, 82 Ask Jeeves, 76 Assumptions, dangers of, 47 ‘Attention economy’, 3 Audio: advantages of accessing <strong>online</strong>, 137 editing, 61–2 recording interviews, 55–7 use of, by <strong>online</strong> newspapers, 136 Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 178 Bandwidth, 22 Banking and financial services, impact of digitized information, 9 BBC News Online, 1, 22, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 134, 135, 137, 138, 145 BBC Online Producer guidelines, 143–4 BBC World Service, 137 Bits, 8, 22 Bookmarks, 71 Boolean logic, see Searching Breadcrumbs, 196 see also Navigation Browsers, 12, 74, 152 BT, 3 Campbell, Duncan, 1 Channel 5 News, 63 Chicago Tribune, 122 ‘chunking’ a story, 124, 126–8, 138 see also Non-linear storytelling CNN, 22, 135 Columbo questioning, 53 Computer Ass<strong>is</strong>ted Reporting, 20, 69–70 Confidence, importance of, 47 Content: creation, 6 editing, 129 importance of, 165 inventory and groupings, 185–6 lack of original material, 7 organizational structure, 167 types, 192 see also Design Core journal<strong>is</strong>m skills, 5, 6, 30 ‘Creating Killer Web Sites’, 165
210 Index Data analys<strong>is</strong>, 20 Dead Tree Dailies, 174 Delivery platforms, 126–7 Design: as communication, 166 browser variations, 177 conducting skills audit, 168 conflicting opinion, 164–5 cons<strong>is</strong>tency, 193 defining your users, 174–8 early m<strong>is</strong>takes, 184 key stages in the process, 169 importance of structure, 171, 185, 188 types of structure, 188–9 m<strong>is</strong>sion statements, 180 page inventories, 192 page layout, 196, 204–6 key principles of layout, 197 screen sizes, 177 site maps, 192 testing the dream, 182 ‘third generation’ sites, 191 use of colour, 200–1 use of metaphor, 194–5 use of type, 201–4 user needs/interests, 186 v<strong>is</strong>ual hierarchy and balance, 198 white space, 199 Digital, definition, 8, 9 Digital Journal<strong>is</strong>t, the, 58 Digital process, the, 8 ‘Digital revolution’, 4 D<strong>is</strong>seminating information, impact of digitization, 20–26 Dogpile, 77 Domains, 72–3 Donaldson, Sam, 7 Dot Journal<strong>is</strong>m, 3, 4 Dot rot, 2 Dreamweaver (Macromedia), 154 see also HTML Eedle, Paul, 25 Eggington, Bob, 1, 2, 6, 134, 142, 145 e-mail: contact between journal<strong>is</strong>t and reader, 145 definition, 13 drawbacks, 90 how secure? 92–2 tracing addresses, 91–2 Evans, Harold, 20, 102–4, 108, 116 Eye track study, 103, 116 Finding news, 31 Flanders, Vincent, 3 Fleming, Jennifer, 171–2 Flexible delivery platforms, 22 Foot and mouth d<strong>is</strong>ease, 118 Forrester Group, 6, 7 Fortune City, 147 Fourth estate, 30 Frontpage (Microsoft), 154 see also HTML Gahran, Amy, 127–8, 167 Gauntlett, David, 3, 6 Gentry, Leah, 122, 124, 131 GeoCities, 147 Global reach, 134 Global = local, 135 Graphic design, 172–3, 197 see also Design Graphics, 165 Grid structures, 189 see also Design Goldhaber, Michael, 3 Google, 75–6, 97 Haig, Matt, 185 Hamlet on the Holodeck, 130 Hendrix, Jimi, 37–9, 173 Hicks, Wynford, 111 Hierarchical structures, 189 see also Design Hotbot, 75 HTML: alignment, 161–2 colour, 162
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