The tagline of SitePoint is “New Articles, Fresh Thinking for Web Developers and Designers”, and rightly so as the website exudes a fresh and professional ambience the moment one reaches the home page. The site attempts to make search for information extremely simple for any visitor.

Design and Layout

The home page has a modern, disciplined and uniform look that from the very first moment tells the visitor that the website means business. The white background, the black and navy blue fonts, the bold black and navy blue headings and the relevant logos beside each topic make the website very attractive and impart an effectiveness about it.

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As a start up networking website, Wikio seems to be doing well. This looks like another social networking website with the updates, the videos, the signups, the search field and so on. The first version of Wikio looked much like Digg and an inspired one. Then they moved to mme tracking and also the collection of news. In the latest redesigned version of Wikio there are a lot of features. There is the section on Shopping and that works well. The items are again divided into various categories and you can link to related news. The looks for the video section is similar to that of Diggs and there is one difference only in the Techmeme style. The videos are good.
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Design: Digg.com is a social content website, which functions as a news aggregator. It is a forum, where people discern and spread out information on interesting and important websites and their content. It is a casual forum, and that is exactly the feel, that its design gives you.

Yes, the site is designed very meticulously, and provides maximum information to a visitor, right at the home page. The color combination of the site is very well chosen and appeals to the senses of the young generation.
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Yahoo! Do not mistake it with an emotion of celebration. Yahoo! is one of the most popular online organizations providing multiple services to various people. It was founded in 1994 by Ph.D students from Stanford University students by the name David Filo and Jerry Yang. They altered the way people looked at communication and provided diverse services to acquire a loyal and dense traffic dense traffic.

Page layout

The Yahoo! home page opens up with excitement. You are introduced instantly to interesting news from any field which can range from music to politics to travel. This is very handy in arresting the interest of the user.  The page follows with some top stories of the world along with news on interesting topics like news on finance, world and others. The segments are lucidly defined to separate news from each other. You can read the news in various local Indian languages.

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