The Independent Blog

Posted by The Independent on December 3rd, 2008 in Website

You may not know this, but The Independent is now on Facebook. It’s part of our world domination plan to be Central Nebraska’s best source for news and information. We also really love talking to you guys and hearing what you have to say, both on Twitter, and now Facebook.

We have some big plans in the coming year, including – and I hate to say it – another website redesign. This may irritate some of you just getting used to our last redesign but unfortunately, when the paper was purchased by GateHouse, we had to switch to their web platform. Nine months later we were sold yet again to the Omaha World Herald company and now we must use their web platform, which is totally different. So these redesigns were not of our choosing.

But the good news is with this new redesign we have a lot more say in how we can present our information, and we’ve listened to your feedback both in this blog and in our recent surveys. We are trying for a clean, simpler website. our biggest worry is our navigation. The problem is we have so much information we have to make available that finding a simple, easy way to present it is difficult.

The website we launch our redesign with will constantly be evolving even after we go live with it. We have greater control and flexibility with it now and so we will definitely appreciate your continued feedback as we refine the website.

There will be a liveblog the day we relaunch, again, so you can kick the tires, poke the site with a stick and come tell us what you think I don’t have a definite date just yet, but it will be soon.

Thanks again for all your help!