This is a website for the weekly newspaper of Scunthorpe. You can see the idea they had when creating the site, they wanted to colour co-ordinate each area of news. Unfortunately, the site has turned into a confusing, jumbled mess which eventually begins to annoy you. The fact that the site lags when scrolling is immediately noticeable and it is utterly impossible to read news from the three column's on the homepage. To make matters worse, it seems there is a never ending amount of advertisments throughout the site - usually sitting in awkward places. Some adverts include videos which just start without no warning, which are then impossible to find to mute.
All in all, this site is laden with junk throughout. It seems that there has been to much thought about navigation that is has become to confusing. There are links for everything - for example the "Restaurants" tab has 8 links to different types of restaurant which all lead to a long confusing list of these new restaurants. The colour idea needs to be simplified, and the home screen set out in a much better fashion - the three huge columns don't work. The lack of user friendliness is surely losing the site a lot of visitors who will be completely off put by this poor design.
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