BusinessWeek.com Website Design Review

ARTICLE SNIPPET - From the Standpoint of Design and Content, BusinessWeek.com is About as Good as it Gets. It's a Model for How to Organize and Display Great Quantities of Digital Content

Last month (June of 2006) saw the launch of at least 77 new magazines including such diverse titles as Jamaican Eats, Atlanta Golf, Distinctive Living and World of Sudoku. By contrast, BusinessWeek magazine has been published by McGraw-Hill since 1929.

BusinessWeek (nee The Business Week) predates Fortune magazine by only a year, and followed Forbes magazine by more than 10 years. All are American icons of the business news world, although they might be considered new kids on the block by The Economist of London, which has been in continuous publication since September of 1843.

BusinessWeek says it is the world's most widely read business magazine, with more than eight million readers each week, including online and television viewers. Its online readers at BusinessWeek.com get access to an overabundance of useful information without having to pay for a print subscription.

By almost every standard, BusinessWeek.com epitomizes the highest quality in online publishing. This website design review demonstrates how it measures up against the 14 Mequoda Website Design Guidelines.

• Learn how BusinessWeek.com handles open content vs. registration-required content and how we might suggest a slightly different tactic - page 7
• Discover the interactive tools used on BusinessWeek.com and why a user could spend hours on this site - page 11
• Learn the strategies BusinessWeek.com uses to prevent spammers from posting inappropriate content in their forums - page 13
• Understand what makes this site's design so clean and straightforward - page 16
• Learn the one inconsistency Businessweek.com suffers from in its website design and how you can avoid it - page 17

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