Wednesday, July 20, 2005
New Daily News Web site to be unveiled
New Daily News Web site to be unveiled
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
The Daily News will unveil a redesigned Web site Thursday with many new features.
The site, www.bgdailynews.com will have a wider page, meaning larger, easier to read print, larger pictures and more content. The redesign will also make navigating the site more convenient.
Link to whole article here (for now)
Well this is exciting! If you have read my blog, you will know that they have been working on the site for some time. (Newspaper Readers turning to Web and BG Daily News managing editor responds) From the recent announcement, they are promoting a wider page, larger pictures and more content. The "other features" noted in the story were an "Amber Crawl" (which you can see at the bottom of Soky.biz), a market watch, and "Darrell’s Daily Rant". While all of this sounds great, and I'm all for improving the site, but from my perspective there were some glaring omissions in the announcement. Just some features like RSS, article comments and ratings and other interactive features, not to mention web standard validation and accessibility mark up for handicapped visitors. I look forward to the new site and think it's wonderful that our local paper is investing in the online market. Thank you!!
(Oh, and my prediction... most all links to older news stories will be lost with a new structure. I've seen it so many times and is a mistake made by the best of webmasters. Hint to developer, write a error page script that will process the requested story and direct users to the new location.)
