http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsPurpose: The purpose of the BBC news website is to inform its audience of top news stories from around the globe. The BBC News website has a mass audience as it is aimed at everybody and anybody as the content on BBC News' website is relevant to everyone. However Children are unlikely to use BBC News' website.
Visitor needs: BBC News allows its users to comment on the news stories that appear on the page and share their opinion.
User experience: BBC News website lets users filter the kind of news story that they see by pressing one of the buttons at the top. (Politics, World, Business, Science etc.)
Features: BBC News usually has videos accompanying its news stories in order to include more details about that specific news story. It also has photos accompanying most news stories, these serve the same purpose as the videos. The home page also has a search bar so that people can find specif news stories. It also has a feature that lets people find news stories from their local area by having the user select an area that they live in.
Benefits: The benefits for the producer are that people will come to the site to view big news stories, this furthers the reach of the BBC. The benefits for the users are that BBC News is available everywhere and includes global news stories, so they can keep up to date on international news.
Content: The content on the BBC News website in 1999 is a lot more cramped than it is now with a lot of the stories positioned closer to each other and the navigation bar that helps people find different kinds of stories was on the left in 1999, this is now on the top of the site in the modern website. The list of stories looks different in that on the 99 site it is a column and on the present day site it has big news stories as a row along the top with smaller stories going in columns down to the bottom of the page. It also has video stories in a column down the right side of the page. 
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