http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent News and updates for TheIndependent.com Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:45:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More Nebraska State Fair Links http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2009/07/29/state-fair-roundup/ George Ayoub and Scott Kingsley have spent a year and a half asking people in the community to tell their stories of cancer survival. Thirty-two stories later, the series has now come to an end. I highly recommend visiting the website and reading these amazing stories. And if you have a ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2009/03/03/cancer-series-online/ 1. You can increase/decrease the font size now on story pages. Just look for the Text Size icon across the top of an article. 2. The newsroom employs 6 beat reporters, 2 full-time photographers and 3 sports reporters. We cover Ag, Cops & Courts, City Government, Health & Business, Education, and ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2009/01/26/25-things-you-may-or-may-not-know-about-the-independent/ 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 ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2009/01/05/a-redesign-explanation/ 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. ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2008/12/30/the-independent-redesign/ 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 ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2008/12/03/the-independent-on-facebook/ http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2008/11/04/live-election-day-chat-going-on-now/ 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 ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2008/10/17/redesign-survey/ We are revamping our website. We would very much appreciate your feedback on the mockups below so we can take your input on what YOU want to see on our website when you visit. Please click the images to view a larger version (PDF files) and look at it closely. The ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2008/09/24/your-opinion-need-indy-redesign/ The Independent began sending out our latest headlines via a little thing called Twitter almost a year ago. We used to have it set up so that our headlines were sent automatically, but perhaps that was too impersonal. Either way, We are still going strong and gaining followers every day. ... http://www.grandislandblogs.com/independent/2008/09/23/how-to-get-started-with-twitter/