Local newspaper websites around the country not just my local area.

 After researching local newspapers for my local Essex/Suffolk area, I decided to research further out of my area around the country. I did this as it showed me a broad range of local newspaper websites, representing the typical conventions and differences, allowing me to create a unique website.

Unlike local newspaper websites such as http://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/ the Yorkshire evening post reports up to date news from all areas of Yorkshire not just one small town or village. The reader picks the area and stories they wish to read, headlines and images are shown but in an interactive manner, skipping through a slideshow showing that the news is for the individual; it's personal. Similarly to Halstead gazette http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ introduces its readers to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, allowing the locals to keep up to date with their local news as well as commenting and giving fed back to the editors. The homepage shows lots of contrasting headlines such as community, sport and events, it also informs you of the weather and breaking news just like http://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/.

I found it interesting that http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ only has 4 tabs to be selected, whereas Halstead Gazette, Haverhill Echo and Braintree and Witham Times have 26+. This is because the individual tabs lead the readers to other tabs  allowing it to be more organised, I believe the differences are due to the website aiming to reach many different audiences in the large areas of Yorkshire. Whereas http://www.haverhillecho.co.uk/ only caters for a small populated town, allowing the editors and website creators to cater to a small group of people specifically.

Whereas contrastingly http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/ follows the same conventions, style and house colours as Halstead Gazette. This is because The Argus also caters for a small town in Brighton, the similarity to Halstead Gazette allowed me to identify the typical colours, style and layout of most local newspaper websites.