They come in for a search and stay to browse. Online design has to satisfy all mental models. You can t exclude anything. Some newspaper people assume that browsing is the way to organize a site, but it s a no-brainer that it s not. Finally, there s design.
Newspapers can afford to be designed purely to appeal to the eye, limited only by space.
Web sites must be functional first, and are limited by screen size and download time. The time crunch is so severe that Even edits Web pages with a stopwatch. More than six seconds to load and words must be trimmed, photos cropped or eliminated. On top of that users can customize the look and feel of the information they receive, bypassing the design. It depends on an honest assessment of what you want to accomplish.