tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37431669.post3851343115402252552..comments2023-11-26T15:57:32.848-05:00Comments on Patti Ewald with the story behind the story: What people are saying about the new Web sitePatti Ewaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11118539617989280234noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37431669.post-11862145272654063252007-03-31T07:54:00.000-04:002007-03-31T07:54:00.000-04:00I love the new look and find it very easy to get t...I love the new look and find it very easy to get to what I want to read. However, I do miss the Newspaper Archives, I found it very usefull when looking for family names and found several on my father in his younger years of mischief...I would love to see the archives come back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37431669.post-50618397728572841762007-03-27T01:15:00.000-04:002007-03-27T01:15:00.000-04:00I find the overall site to be somewhat confusingly...I find the overall site to be somewhat confusingly organized - I'm not sure where to start looking. Why are some stories under both "Top Stories' and "Local'? Why are some stories listed twice under 'Top Stories'? Where do I go to look for stories that were on the front page?<BR/><BR/>The new site seems very graphically oriented - the big flashing photos, the prominent video links - but without a lot of good graphic elements. Using the main photos as links only works if the photo captions make sense - and make it clear just what is being linked to. . "Shoppers exit and enter the mall" doesn't clue me in. And the video stuff isn't getting updated as often as it once was - one of the Lastest vVideos is still from March 14. Did your videographer quit?<BR/><BR/>It also would be helpful, as others have suggested, to post the first one or two paragraphs of a story on the main pages so readers can tell what the story's about. Either that, or write better headlines. Headlines that often work in the paper aare awful on the Web. (Case in point: Today's "Fantastic freshmen" under the Sports section. I don't have a clue what it's about, and am not about to waste my time on it if you haven't taken the 30 seconds to rewrite the headline.)<BR/><BR/>And please pick a better font for the left-hand links! Geneva or whatever you're using now looks horrible - the wide spacing between letters is *incredibly* distracting.<BR/><BR/>I also miss having the PDF files of the front page online. It was always neat to see just how the news was presented in the "old media' world.<BR/><BR/>Are there any plans to add columnists online - like Andy Young and Harvey Gittler? It would also be nice to hbe able to go to one page and look at current and past columns by those two gentlemen, as well as by Patti Ewald, Christine Jolliffe, Scott Petrak, Steve Fogarty, etc., rather than having to do a cumbersome search for "ewald" or "andy young' and sort through results.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of Mr. Fogarty, why aren't your Accent or Encore sections online? The movies and entertainment news and events in Encore, especially, would seem like a natural way to attract younger readers to your Web site.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for listening!<BR/><BR/>- A reader of your print & online editions since 2002Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37431669.post-58072645523042704022007-03-14T15:59:00.000-04:002007-03-14T15:59:00.000-04:00Looks good Patti.Former IT staff guess who?Looks good Patti.<BR/>Former IT staff guess who?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37431669.post-59317424469867552562007-03-13T11:33:00.000-04:002007-03-13T11:33:00.000-04:00Vast improvement, nice touch! You must have a new...Vast improvement, nice touch! You must have a new server, too. Its running way faster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com