The day has finally arrived and you now can see our new Web site.
Yes, as you may notice, we are experiencing some technical difficulties today. We appreciate your patience as we work out these issues.
If you have any questions, let us know, either by commenting here on my blog, or by submitting your comments via our Feedback form, found at the bottom of this page on the "Send us your feedback" link.
Changes
A few things you may notice are some navigation changes. For a list of these changes be sure to click on the breaking news item at the top of the home page.
Blogs
Your blog posts should have transferred over. If you click on the link to your blog title, that should take you to a page with a listing of all your blog entries. If you do not see them, please let us know.
You can see that our blogs are now organized into staff and reader blogs. Click on the Blogs section to see the subsections which include: Latest, Staff blogs, Reader blogs, All Blogs, Groups.
We now blog groups, you can categorize your blogs into one of these groups: Community news, Entertainment, Faith, General, Politics, Sports and Technology.
Need help posting a blog? Click on the Blog Tips subsection found under Blogs.
Submitting photos
Click on the Photos & Videos section and click on the Upload a Photo sub section. Type in a title for the photo, date photo was taken, name (credit) of person who took photo, browse to select photo from your computer, and then type in a caption.
I'll keep updating this blog throughout the day with any updates.
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April 21, 2009 at 10:57 a.m.HI CJ, Thanks for the Twitter follow.
April 21, 2009 at 10:07 a.m.CJ, you and the IT dept. have done great work. Keep tweeking. Listen to your online voices they will make you a strong force.
I can find all comments to all articles, blogs of any section in ONE place.
April 3, 2009 at 3:09 p.m.CJ...awesome job fixing the things that were annoying me!!! You are my hero!
April 3, 2009 at 2:03 p.m.coolgranny - Thanks! Actually the credit for all these updates go to our web dept., they have done a great job. I'll be sure to pass your comment along to them.
April 3, 2009 at 2:03 p.m.C.J. Thanks for getting the comments on line. Much easier to locate and keep up with what everyone is saying. I think I can live with this now...appreciate it.
April 3, 2009 at 1:37 p.m.I see the most recent comments are flowing to the top of the comment list on articles as well.
Keep coming back, I see more updates on the way!
April 3, 2009 at 11:49 a.m.Good job cj, things are looking better especially the "see all latest comments" feature.
April 3, 2009 at 11:43 a.m.Wheewww WHoo! Saw the new "spell check" button, located at the bottom of the post blog screen. THANK YOU VA!
April 3, 2009 at 10:07 a.m.We are having some technical difficulties. Thanks for your patience.
April 2, 2009 at 12:57 p.m.Ok, anyone else having problems with the front page as in, it's not there?
April 2, 2009 at 12:17 p.m.I have looked at this web site for 4 days and its still crap. I want to see current news on the home page not news from 3 days ago. I cant get the twitter updates on my computer either. The blogs are crap how they are set up. All the Advocate wants to do is get people to buy the paper version again since its gone up so they can make more money to defend their reporters in the current trial. The Advocate is so far into this Ratcliff stuff that what they have done there is no getting out, maybe it will finally fall down on them like it should have a long time ago and they will get what is coming to them.
April 2, 2009 at 11:24 a.m.I'll be back with an update.
April 2, 2009 at 10:59 a.m.Can you do something about the print? It is tiny and almost transparent.....and the headings...white on light blue.....definitely not meant for anyone over the age of 35. Actually the only print that can be read is in the ads.....surprise surprise!!!
The Avatars....so tiny you can't even tell what they are....Why bother with having them. I always thought it was cool to make a statement with your avatar....no more.
Actually, in summary....I hate the new format. It is the most disorganized bunch of garbage I have ever seen......you can't find anything, you can't see anything, it's pretty much a real bummer..
I even checked out some other same size newspaper sites to see if it was just me being an old fuddy duddy. Nope. Why take something that worked and replace it was something so grossly inferior that it is comical.
April 1, 2009 at 5:20 p.m.Oh, LBB - I will update you when I have an answer about your profile removal.
March 31, 2009 at 4:44 p.m.itsallfunny - The button is right next to the one that sends PopTarts to my desk. ;)
john - Can you e-mail the title of one of these blogs you deleted? You can send to cjcastillo@vicad.com. And if you want to remove those blogs from public view, you can click to edit the blog entry and save as a draft. If you need help, let me know.
March 31, 2009 at 4:42 p.m.If he or she gets a milkshake I want beer, black jack, and pretty women on my lap with a cigar waiting for me.
That was a modified statement from the character bender on futurama.
Bender was a Mexican American Robot, go figure.
I only engage in two of the four vises, in moderation.
Pretty women and cigars are bad for my health.
March 31, 2009 at 2:16 p.m.All my deleted blog postings have reappeared. It really doesn’t matter; the reason for deleting my postings was to demonstrate that I don’t take myself to seriously. This creates a very interesting situation; I get to see how full of it I was, LOL.
No one is perfect and it is very humanizing to see ones error in judgment and how developments in thought have occurred.
Anyway, I love the new look even if I’m back to learning how to swim again. Tell your mother to not be to hard on you, your only human.
March 31, 2009 at 2:09 p.m.Can you ask them where the button is to have a milkshake delivered to my desk as well? Can't find it anywhere!
March 31, 2009 at 2:08 p.m.LittleBlueBook - As Chris mentioned in his blog, our former content management system was going out of business and we had no choice but to replace it now.
I am not ignoring your question either, but am waiting for a response on how users can delete their own profiles.
March 31, 2009 at 1:50 p.m.coolgranny - Glad that part is working out for you.
justbeachy - Currently we don't have one page with a list of all recent comments. That feature is in the works though.
However, I did notice you can find a list of the last 10 comments here:http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/blogs/
Scroll down, click on the Comments tab.
March 31, 2009 at 12:32 p.m.CJ - is there a way to find all recent comments that have been posted? I really enjoyed that feature on the previous version.
March 31, 2009 at 11:37 a.m.CJ, I want you to know that I posted a comment, and was pleasantly surprised that I didn't have to sign in again. I like this. I lost quite a few comments and blogs before because I forgot to save or sign in.
March 31, 2009 at 6:57 a.m.I was born in Victoria, but now live in the upper Northeast, so I must say it is nice to see the upgrade of the Advocate's web page. I have enjoyed keeping up with the home town, keep up the progress.
March 31, 2009 at 5:55 a.m.Coolgranny - Yes, the lack of spell check has been noted. If you need help on anything else, let me know.
March 30, 2009 at 4:59 p.m.Thanks CJ-I found what I needed. The format is different, and I miss the spellcheck, but will survive.
March 30, 2009 at 4:39 p.m.Aaugh, you broke it!
Just kidding. I just heard back from our web team, and they are still working on this. Seems to be a bug in the system.
March 30, 2009 at 1:42 p.m.ooops, sorry, I tried something different and now I have two blog posts and both don't work. I hope I didn't break anything!
March 30, 2009 at 1:33 p.m.Rebecca - Thanks, we did notice that and are trying to see why this is happening with your blog. Thanks for letting us know.
March 30, 2009 at 1:26 p.m.For what it's worth: I posted a blog (really just to try the new format out) but when I click it I get a "page unavailable." When I click on my mug it does that too. D= Not that what I blogged was important or anything, but I thought I would share the glitch just in case...
March 30, 2009 at 1:19 p.m.Vbb - If it makes you feel any better, one of the first phone calls I received this morning was from my mother, with a complaint about our new site. Haha.
Anyway, if anyone has a suggestion, issue or comment about the new design, I strongly encourage them to click on the "Send us your feeback" link at the bottom of the page. This will go to the appropriate department, which is keeping track of all of these issues or suggestions.
March 30, 2009 at 1:11 p.m.That would be great, as it is, commenting on anything & keeping a dialouge with others is pointless as it is extremely frustrating. I am in no mood today & this just made my day worse.
March 30, 2009 at 12:51 p.m.Roy - Sorry I didn't respond earlier. It's been a little busy this morning, hope you understand.
Currently the way to view latest comments is by clicking on the Comments tab on the home page, under From You. Our web development team is working on an enhancement that would allow users to click on a "More Comments" link, which would take you to an expanded list of recent comments.
March 30, 2009 at 12:44 p.m.OK CJ where are the comments now? I don't know what to click on to read all the latest grips and complaints from the community
March 30, 2009 at 11:55 a.m.