Comments on: Website changes + no notice = frustrated readers

By: Bob Welsh

Bob Welsh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:58:04 +0000

I like the new changes on the website and it was not so radical as to be difficult to follow. My only complaint is being a former Lakeland resident, its impossible to follow my old high school’s basketball team because you almost NEVER put in scores and I have never found a high school sports scoreboard on the sports page to look at. Some of us live 600-700 miles away and subscribing to the paper would make no sense but we like keeping up with the things that go on where we used to live.
Bob Welsh
KHS class of 77

By: ScribbleSheet Blog

ScribbleSheet Blog — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:56:17 +0000

[...] Yoni at Editor on the Verge takes a look sfgate and how they involve their community in the sites redesigns and directions. They post screenshots [...]

By: JohnofScribbleSheet

JohnofScribbleSheet — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:57:49 +0000

User interaction and feedback is critical to the success of any site, sfgate does a great job.

By: links for 2007-12-27 : William M. Hartnett

links for 2007-12-27 : William M. Hartnett — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:20:21 +0000

[...] Website changes + lack of notice = frustrated readers – editor on the verge “When it comes to Hanukkah, Christmas for even birthday gifts, surprises are a big hit. But in terms of your website, surprises don’t really work.” (tags: web-design newspapers) [...]

By: admin

admin — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:06:04 +0000

jack lail » Thanks, hadn’t seen that. I like the dual front approach, just wish more sites would take advantage of it, especially since there are commercial outlets that will do the mirroring for reasonable price.

By: jack lail

jack lail — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:16:39 +0000

A current example is Gannett’s Tennessean. They have been promoting a new site in the upper right hand corner of the current for a couple weeks it seems. The new site is at beta.tennessean.com.