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How To Add a News and Alerts Section to Your Website

How To Add a News and Alerts Section to Your Website Stop the presses: having "news" on your website is still big news.  OK, so it's probably not a shocker... but we like flashy headlines as much as the next developer.  News is important. That's why you probably have an entire page on your site dedicated to it, where visitors can see all your activity. But when someone hits your homepage, it's helpful to feature a bite-sized set of entries. This can be done by creating a shorter, more compact section that features your news and alerts in one place. It's not that different from the front page of a newspaper, which gives you the latest breaking stories with the option to flip to other pages to read more.  Remember newspapers? In this tutorial, we'll show you how to build a news and alerts section in a neat grid system – perfect for living anywhere on your website. You can list them side by side using Bootstrap columns, so your visitors can peruse th...

What You Can Learn From The Best News Website Designs

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What You Can Learn From The Best News Website Designs People consume large quantities of information on the web daily, and nearly 40% of global internet users read news online. This, of course, impacts what they expect from news websites. According to a joint study by the Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC) and Nielsen India, there has been a 41% increase  in time spent on news apps and websites.  News websites are content-heavy, and keeping your reader engaged can be a tricky balancing act to pull off. Get it wrong, and you risk overwhelming your visitors, who’ll leave without retaining any part of what they just read. Get it right, and you’ll have gained a new audience member or maybe a few more. Although  content is still king , mobile-optimized and faster websites have an advantage.   Plugins, compression, and other methods to increase page speed are mandatory to lower bounce rates and improve conversions.  News websites usually entail large ...