One of the websites I frequent most often is Ted.com. Ted's chief motto is to spread ideas, information, and stories that truly mean something. This website is designed nicely keeping in mind that it's main content is video. On the front page there is a list of different categories like "most viewed" or "most commented on this week," with genre categories as well, such as "funny" or "inspiring." When you click on each category the previews in the middle change to give you a different set of videos to watch based on the category. This site doesn't have a lot of writing on it, but the little it does have with blurbs/summaries, headlines, and sub-headlines really make it clear and easy to navigate.
Many people have seen a Ted Talk, and if you haven't, I advise you look one up and enlighten yourself. These Ted Talks are usually 20 minute videos: short enough to keep your attention, and long enough to cover a lot of information. These Ted Talks give an inspiring and optimistic outlook on life, they call for change and social activism, and they talk about topics that people generally try to avoid. Here is a great Ted Talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html)
Secondly, I have to admit, without shame, that a website I visit very frequently is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible site, despite the fact that many nonsensical college professors would like to believe it is an evil site, simply because it will make a student's life easy and allow them to get good grades. The reason I believe the site has gotten some uncertain reviews is because anyone is allowed to edit the pages and add their own information. True: this is something to be wary of. However, for the most part, this has only led to a funny joke being placed into a perfectly reliable page. You can verify its reliability because most pages have references, links to where you can find the information inside the article.
Wikipedia is popular because it has up to date information on literally everything, with an accessible website layout. It has indexs to organize information, headlines, sub headlines, pictures, sometimes audio clips, and graphs to organize information. Fun fact: If you go to any page on Wikipedia and click on the first linked word in every article you will ALWAYS end up at the article for Philosophy. So here is that article as an example of the good web writing and design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
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