This is probably vaguely off-topic. But I feel that the design of the newspaper's website helped somewhat with the article connecting with me. I don't think I would have paid as much attention if the website was as saturated with adverts as, say, the Washington Post or the New Yorker, or any other of the many websites with banners, popups, text-obscuring dialogues with crap like "click here to read more", "I see you're using an ad-blocker!", etc. (I actually turned off my ad-blocker to see if it was just me, but no, my ad-blocker only found one thing to block, and I still can't figure out what it was).
Not only the lack of adverts, but the framing of the photographs, the way that it centers the article (access to the rest of the site has been put in the background (You know, where it belongs)). All of this I feel helped me to focus on the article, which allowed me to connect better with it and remember it better.
I wonder if websites will eventually get better at this and become as classy as this one, or if things will just deteriorate further into a horrible mess.
Not only the lack of adverts, but the framing of the photographs, the way that it centers the article (access to the rest of the site has been put in the background (You know, where it belongs)). All of this I feel helped me to focus on the article, which allowed me to connect better with it and remember it better.
I wonder if websites will eventually get better at this and become as classy as this one, or if things will just deteriorate further into a horrible mess.
Just my 2 pennies.