Luceo Images & NewsPulse

http://luceoimages.com/

The first thing that catches my eye upon entering the Luceo Images site, is the large photograph featured at the top. Appropriate size and great photographs always interest me enough to spend more time on the page. It's simple and has a nice layout, not at all overwhelming to readers, and if you like a photograph on the page (shocker) it actually takes you to the project. That might seem obvious, but a lot of pages don't use their photographs as links. A comment that is neither good or bad, but one that we're going to have to consider for our site, is that Luceo Images has a gray and black site instead of a vibrant, color-filled page. It works for them because their photographs pop. The color and presentation of our page is going to do certain things for our photographs/multimedia and a simple color scheme might be the best way to go.


http://newspulse.cnn.com/

NewsPulse doesn't do a whole lot for me. It does have more content to display, faster than Luceo, but at first glance there's a lot to look at. A page like NewsPulse is initially confusing and not necessarily focused on stories as much as 'how much stuff we can show you.' On the other hand, their organization is something that we can consider using. I like that searching for a story and accessing a story is a quick processes; just like Luceo, there's a clip of an image and headline on the front page.