{"id":385,"date":"2009-02-15T19:57:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2009-02-15T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T01:57:44","slug":"web-feature-you-should-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/web-feature-you-should-steal\/","title":{"rendered":"Five web features you should steal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Need some online inspiration? Just take a stroll through some other web sites and learn from what others are doing. With that in mind, here are five ideas that could benefit almost any news web site out there:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/\">azcentral.com<\/a> live module. Nothing complicated here. Just a continuous stream of reader comments as they come into the site. 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A clever (and straightforward) way to show the top news in several categories at a glance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-390\" title=\"picture-1\" src=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Austin American-Statesman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/standing\/twitter.html\">Twitter page<\/a>. 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