Updating the website

 

Inside the Magazine photo

There are some parts of Real Simple's website that seem to never get updated. For example, under the Inside the Magazine tab there is a photograph of a women writing notes. This picture has been the same since I started looking at Real Simple's website back in January. The content changes each month, but nothing ever happens with the art. Frankly, it's boring to come back to a website every week and see the same photo living in the same place for months. The magazine does a good job of maintaining their home page, but a suggestion would be to put that same amount of man power into switching out art throughout the entire site. Every section opening should be treated with the same amount of importance as the home page.

 

Featured story in the clothing section

Another area that doesn't seem to be updated as often is the clothing section. The above feature story has been on this page for at least a month, if not more. I'm not sure if I've ever seen it change. Real Simple's website is made up of many layers. It has so many pages and openers that I know it must be hard to keep up with the workload. Especially since they have a lot of online exclusive stories. However, it's important to readers that information gets updated and changed on a regular basis. I hope that I will begin to see more updates to the site in the next month.