Weather Vs. Accuweather

I'm saying this upfront because it needs to be said: I don't look up weather information at all online, nor do I watch weather reports on any news programs. To me it's just pointless because you can simply look out of your window or better yet step outside your door and see/experience what the weather is really like. That's my rule of thumb for checking the weather.

Anyway...

Both of these sites are dedicated to one thing: weather. Even though both Weather.com and Accuweather.com are two completely different sites, that offer different information, and different tools for users, there is one common ground: the weather.

Weather.com had a section titled "Weather On Your Website." Now, honestly, as I was looking through the site trying to find a place were additional tools may be available to use, I passed this weather on your website link right up. Why? Because it's at the very bottom of the page, and I would think if a site wants someone to take advantage of a feature like this, wouldn't it be on the top? Anyway, when clicked on it directed you to another page that said that anyone can get the weather. It states: "Its fast, easy, & free". In order to take advantage of this feature (to have the weather featured on your personal website or blog or whatever it is you have) you would have to register, and once registered you can get html codes to post on your website/blog.

Accuweather.com also had a place for additional tools that are available for users to take advantage of. The portion of the site is called "netweather" and like weather.com's feature it allows people to post weather information on not only blogs and personal websites but also site like Myspace.com. Even though the this feature is very similar on both websites there were some differences. Netweather offered more features than weather.com did. Those features were: multiple themes, choice of more than 3 million locations, being able to display current weather conditions, local weather, a five day forecast, and many different weather maps, and this feature comes in both Spanish and English.

Even though one site offered more features than the other I do think that both were valuable to those who would want to take advantage of tools like this.