Our web department has been working diligently on our new Web site design and we expect this new site to go live the last week of March or the first week of April.
We are all excited about this redesign, and I think many of you will like the changes that are coming. Before we launch our new site I will blog about the new features that will be included, and will share images and screenshots from our new design.
For all of you who have created profiles on our current site, here are a few things to keep in mind and I will blog about these changes again as a reminder:
- Your username will stay the same and transfer over to the new site, but you will be required to change your password on the new Web site.
- All of your blogs and blog comments will transfer over to the new Web site.
- Article comments posted on our current Web site will not transfer to the new site.
- As of now, your avatar/profile photos may not transfer over to the new site. If you have an avatar you are using and want to use, I would suggest saving it to your computer, you can attach it to your profile on our new site.
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"There will be no verification code on our redesign. Bloggers rejoice!"
February 18, 2009 at 5:07 p.m.THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!
By the way, will the new format remember our sign on when we answer yes. The one now sometimes will remember for a couple of days and then won't remember within a couple of hours. Not a big thing, but I'm wondering.
Sugar - We did discuss bringing back that feature, and I will check and see if this is going to be available. You are right, it was easier back then to see the topics with recent comments.
I really do think you will like our new design. There will be an initial learning process, figuring out where everything is, but I think it will be fairly easy to navigate. Tomorrow I plan to blog more about it, along with a screen grab of the new site.
February 17, 2009 at 8:45 p.m.CJ - I am excited about the new web site! I hope the change is for the better; I have a feeling it will be. One question, and I think this has been brought up before. The old web site before this one had a most handy way of arranging forum topics, with the most recently commented topics staying at the top of the discussion list. This does not work this way with the new site. Sometimes I and many other posters have to "go back" for pages and pages to comment on a topic that is still relevant and "hot". PLEASE, PLEASE, bring back the feature of the old discussion forum that keeps "hot" topics on top, not arranged by "publication" date as is the current practice. I would VERY much appreciate this, as I am sure would many other bloggers.
February 17, 2009 at 7:33 p.m.Toni - There will be no verification code on our redesign. Bloggers rejoice!
February 17, 2009 at 4:56 p.m.Toni - I'll find out about the verification process and see if that is included in the redesign.
February 17, 2009 at 4:16 p.m.Interested - I did confer with our digital director regarding your question, and the response I received is that in order to keep our web site free to access, we need to charge for advertising space.
This also ties in with a topic that has been discussed recently on various blogs and newspaper sites, if users would pay to access online newspapers. The New York Times recently announced it is researching whether or not they will start charging for access to their online content. You can read more about this topic here: New York Times considers charging for its Web site
February 17, 2009 at 4:14 p.m.CJ!
This will not work.
MY AVATAR!?!?!!?
Can we please vote about this verification thingy? :P
February 17, 2009 at 4:08 p.m.I hope your guidelines will also call for NO MORE of these pop-up advertisements that come up EVERY time you access home page. Texas Vocational Schools must have paid handsomly for this ad - it is driving me crazy - does it have to come up every time the home page is accessed? If so, please let me know when the ad ends and I will wait to go online to read the advocate.
February 17, 2009 at 1:56 p.m.