SportingNews takes on the BBC sports

When a person calls upon their internet to get some type of news or story, they want it to be a couple of different things. They mostly want it to be convenient to use and easy to look at. That is why they are looking at the internet in the first place, because it is readily available and they can access the information they want to get quicker. That being said, some sites are better at accomplishing this than others are. I am going to look at two sports pages and see exactly how they stack up against one another in their quality and ease to which a person can navigate them.

SportingNews.com is a site that covers specifically sports stories. When you first enter the site there is one large graphic on the left. Next to the large graphic there are the top stories that are really easy to see. I really like the set-up that this website uses as far as the placement of their stories and their graphics. On the right of the screen there is a large advertisement, but it doesn't really get in the way of anything. Another thing that I really like about the site is that they place all of the scores at the top of the screen and they are all there for you to look at. There is an auto refresh as well, which is a nice feature when you are looking at it to see what the live scores are. Then at the bottom of the page they have stories that are divided into categories based on which sport you are interested in. this is a nice feature because it makes navigating to the stories that you specifically want to read that much easier. The last thing about this site that I absolutely am obsessed with, is that they give you access to their radio station as well and you an listen to live feeds any time you want. SportingNews is my first choice when it comes to finding a website that is easy to use and I want to look at. 

BBC sports, however, is a poorly designed site that makes me feel a little queasy whenever I look at it. When you enter the page there is just one picture in the middle of it, with the story right next to it. There are maybe a couple of stories off to the side as well, but there is basically only one one story that may interest you. They only cover a few sports, so if you are looking for something in particular you might as well give up and go look someplace else. It is also not very easy to navigate and not very pleasing to they eye. There is a lot of text, which I normally like, but in this case there is too much of it. Besides the text there is not much else on the page, and you are left wondering if they are always on a slow news day. Whatever the case BBC news is not the place to go if you are looking for an informative sports news website.