USAToday.com

I chose USAToday.com for my RSS feed on the bottom of my page, mostly because it's what I read (on the rare occasion I pick up a national newspaper). The website is laid out similarly to many that have recently updated including CNN.com.

One of the better features, to me, is the use of the color-coding system for identifying the sections employed in the paper version. When you click on a story from the Money section, for example, such as this one by David Lynch, several features along the top of the page turn green so you know which section you're reading from. Unnecessary, but a nice aesthetic touch.

Many of the stories featured in the main "top news" section on the home page and the lower, "more news" section have accompanying photos, while there is a separate "featured video" section on the home page. There could be more videos with stories to compete with other online sources, but hopefully that will improve soon.

Also, stories usually have links in the "jump" in the middle of the text. Many times this is distracting, and sometimes it's hard to tell if the story's done. This story even has two sets of links in a relatively short article. I don't know of a better way to increase clicks and advertisement, but this way is too distracting.

I read USA Today for the writing, but the website could use some tweaks.