When publishing articles online, there are a few guidelines that help people read your site — use bullet points, write in short paragraphs and offer an article summary. CNN’s web site, though, provides the best implementation of article summaries I’ve seen.
While I’ve seen and even recommended the approach of using article summaries before, I think CNN’s article summaries do a few things very well.
- The summary is located in the right place. The headline is large and attracts attention, and the summary is immediately to the right.
- The summary uses short, one-line bullet points
- There’s a small yet noticeable link to the next article in case the current one does not interest you.
