Here is a rather detailed explanation of why we had to change our website again. For the record, we did not wish to do this the first time as we were happy with our old design. But when the newspaper is purchased by a new company, we have to change pretty much everything about the [...]
Well we’ve done it again. I posted the reasons why we have to redesign our website in the live chat – going on as I write this – so I’ll reproduce them here: We completed a redesign of our site to comply with our new owners just under a year ago. We needed to be [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to everyone who took a moment to give us some valuable feedback on one of the drafts we’re working on for our website redesign. A lot of very good information in there that we will take into consideration as we continue to refine and research the best way to make our website work for [...]
Recently, our newspaper implented registration for commenting on stories. There have been issues with getting the registration confirmation emails working, and I’m told that it’s being worked on. There is a workaround, and though it’s a bit clunky, it will work. If you are unable to click on the confirmation link when you register, you [...]
Many readers visit our daily photo galleries and often purchase a reprint of a photo that appeared in our paper. This is a service we have offered for years. This is especially popular if you have a son or daughter who participated in sports or a school event we covered. Having one of our award-winning [...]
According to The Independent’s parent company, GateHouse Media, at 9AM EST on Wednesday 6/11/08 we will integrate commenting registration across all sites. If you wish to comment on articles on our website, you will have to register and provide a valid email address. This is being implemented company-wide for all GateHouse Media newspapers which means [...]
We’re looking forward (really, REALLY looking forward) to the return of our full archives. I still do not have an ETA for them, but they’re putting the final touches on them and they should be returning within the next week or so. Growing pains eh? We do have some fairly exciting changes coming with our [...]
You can replay the live chat we held to help answer questions about our new website redesign, but if you don’t want to sift through that, I’m going to post some of the Big Questions people had. Archives: Our full archives will be down for a while as the company tackles getting 10 years of [...]