Comments on: Jakob Nielsen on Online Press Rooms http://www.contentious.com/2004/01/28/jakob-nielsen-on-online-press-rooms/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:38:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Cheryl Morgan http://www.contentious.com/2004/01/28/jakob-nielsen-on-online-press-rooms/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Cheryl Morgan Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2004/01/28/jakob-nielsen-on-online-press-rooms#comment-171 Much sympathy there, Amy. I have had terrible trouble with corporate press pages. On the other hand, many corporate web sites are still terrible full stop. They seem determined to keep Nielsen in business. One of the problems, however, is competition for menu space. There are design reasons for not putting too many items in an individual menu, and your management may view other functions as more important. I've only ever built one online press room - for ConJose, the 2002 World Science Fiction Convention (www.conjose.org). I managed to get it two clicks away from the home page, despite the fact that many of the organizing committee didn't seem to want us to have anything to do with the media. I was quite pleased with that. Much sympathy there, Amy. I have had terrible trouble with corporate press pages. On the other hand, many corporate web sites are still terrible full stop. They seem determined to keep Nielsen in business.

One of the problems, however, is competition for menu space. There are design reasons for not putting too many items in an individual menu, and your management may view other functions as more important. I’ve only ever built one online press room – for ConJose, the 2002 World Science Fiction Convention (www.conjose.org). I managed to get it two clicks away from the home page, despite the fact that many of the organizing committee didn’t seem to want us to have anything to do with the media. I was quite pleased with that.

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