While I was observing both news sites on-line I found that both Contra Costa and Dayton Daily News felt similar.  As I was navigating on one and then the other, they both felt very close in comparison.  I like Contra Costa better overall because in the end it came across as more user friendly.  I liked how the RSS search was in the upper right hand corner like I was expecting whereas in the Dayton News, it was at the very bottom in small print with about ten other options below making it slightly more confusing.   Both sites had upper tabs where you can just click on a subject like news or sports and below it automatically pulls up sub categories to choose from.  I found this very efficient.  Both sites had blogs sites, but it was hard for me to determine how to post a blog myself if I wanted to.  I feel that Contra Costa was interesting in that as a reader you can post comments to articles that you read.  I have never seen this before or have actually paid attention to this in the past, but now I will since I have seen it done on Contra Costa News.  Surprisingly I did not see any podcasts available on both news sites, but I may just not have been able to find them.  I even went under entertainment to search and came across nothing.  I did a general search on both sites for podcasts and it came up with websites that I could go to and order podcasts.  Lastly, I thought both sites were plain and blue and could use some more color and spice.  Not necessarily more pictures or video, but more colors added to make it more vivid and drastic.

Overall, I was very surprised that both a CA news site and Ohio News site were similar in their format and structure.  I enjoyed a few things about each that were different; those being, the bold letters on the main page of Dayton News and the Rss button and color coded sections on the main page of Contra Costa.  Both sites did seem easy to use making it user friendly to a large audience.