In what way has the previous knowledge of graphic design rules and the use of the grid transformed on the web platform? In a canvas composed with pixels would not be logic to follow a set of rules that would naturally fit into those same pixels? How are we using the medium to our own benefit and how can we take advantage of its full potential? Are today’s online newspapers embracing the web fully as a new medium or are they anchored to the paper metaphor, disregarding the possibilities of the online platform and leaving the users with a poorer information experience? Should information be presented in the same format no matter the nature of its content? We try to research how the most notorious online newspapers of Europe and South America are addressing this issues and its ways of doing so.