http://www.met.police.uk/

Looking at the layout this web site is really useful if you need information of a particular subject that regard the Police department in your local area. When I was mugged a few months ago I needed some information of recovery and future help from the police. The centralisation of the text as well as the most relevant topics displayed on the front page it makes it very easily accessible. The fact that the site is not clotted and have been kept simple is reasuring for someone in distress. It is easy and very good for the general public who have questions about less serious things in their dayly lives.
An example of a bad web site is the hackney gazette website. http://www.hackneygazete.co.uk/ is ugly and unappealing. As a customer I want to be inspired to view the site again and again to see what is going on in my local community, but the layout just does not do it for me. To me the site is a confusing mix of news and adverts set up in a way that you can not be sure of what is what. To me I would like to have a simpler and straight forward style to the web site. Maybe with a clear divition of important news and adverts. I would like to enlarge the design to fill out th whole screen to make more room for relevant local news decorated witht the neccessarry ads away from articles.