Of that redesign, Anonymous@5:26 p.m. wrote in a recent comment:
The new website design is the mastermind of Chris Saridakis and Kevin Poortinga in Digital. Actually, our site (and many in U.S. Community Publishing) like the initial designs and thought process behind it. The internal code name is Project Odyssey.
It is in the early phases, but we will see parts of it rolling out by 3rd quarter with a bulk of it by the end of the year.
ContentOne has not been involved (Thank God!) with this project. This will certainly be better than GO4, but many of us are worried that with the exit of Saridakis, will his team be able to deliver on the initial vision for the redesign.
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This is the same lockstep template most of us have to follow. No flexibility for special projects or packages, especially at papers without a real Web site manager on staff.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing it's missing to separate from Wilmington is the floating pop-up ad and the video links. It's fugly as sin.
ReplyDeleteDisagreeing with 2:13 - at least in Wilmington, we do blowout treatment for breaking news and big stories, pushing the three-story carousel down and bannering a story or photo across the top.
David Ledford has never been one to worry about Gannett rules overly much. And that is much to his credit.
ReplyDeleteA real problem is that every small paper is staffed with editors who spend time every day looking at the sites of larger papers trying to find things they can steal. Doesn't matter if its ugly, if it gets traffic you'll see it on 20 other sites in a week.
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