Analysis of the Guardian website.

Take note that because this is at school I'm viewing the website on Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer 6 is an 8 year old browser that is incapable of displaying much of the rich media content on Guardian.co.uk
Despite this liability I can see that the main stories are organised into short blurbs which lead the audience on to the full article. Below that it resorts to just listing headlines. This leads the audience quickly on to the most important content. The front page of Guardian.co.uk is similar to the front page of the physical paper, it's function is to draw the audience on to specific stories, like a channel to content.
Here's the top of an article:

As you can see the content is on the left, with various controls on the right, and an advert. The picture at the top is typical of the Guardian website.
At the top there's the article history which says that the article was

Published on guardian.co.uk at 01.26 GMT on Friday 29 January 2010. It was last modified at 01.27 GMT on Friday 29 January 2010.

It's all very well organised to present information. I suspect it may have been put together by a graphic designer.

Hum, so that's my half-hearted analysis.

EDIT: I came back with the Chrome browser and grabbed a better image of the Guardian front page: