www.trumanindex.com
Check ot our redesigned website!
Myself, Managing Editor Jack Nicholl and Online Editor Patrick Gross sat down last April to discuss a complete overhaul of the Index’s website.
We took many things into consideration when we sketched our dream website.
First, we wanted our website to look better. The previous website was bland. No color, small fonts and a boring look overall. So we’ve thrown in some color, emphasized our featured stories a little more and made some important things ‘pop’ a little more, such as our Editor, Photo and Sports blogs.
Second, we wanted our website to be more readable. The previous website was difficult to take in at once. Seeing all the top stories meant scrolling down what felt like a mile to see the News, TruLife and Sports main stories. We’ve implemented a dandy flash-screen up top on our new website. On it, you’ll see the main stories from each section, along with a multimedia project or a fourth story to go on the fourth screen. It’s much better than scrolling down to take each photo in.
Third, we wanted our website to be easily accesible. The former website’s tabs made things difficult to peruse. Now, our tabs will have options. Want to read about the women’s basketball team only? Click on our women’s basketball tab. Want to subscribe to the print edition of the Index? There’s a tab for that, too. Searching the archives of sections will be easier, too. Want to know what’s been going on in TruLife for the past few weeks? All of TruLife’s stories will appear under the ‘TruLife” tab.
We are pretty happy with the switch we’ve made. But, in the end, it doesn’t matter as much what we think about the new website as it does what YOU think about the new website. So please let us know. We want to know what you like, what you don’t like and everything in between. You can email us at indextips@gmail.com, comment on our website or you can email me personally at bmm5242@truman.edu.
We hope this redesign will make your Index online viewing easier. And we hope you’ll keep coming back to see it!
Brenna
October 24, 2010 at 4:33 pm |
I do not have a comment to make, but a question. There was an article written in the TSI, about mid Sept., concerning a group of people building homes out of natural materials, etc. in La Plata. MO. My sons’ name, Kyle Isacksen, was mentioned in it and it explained the way they were living off the land, etc. He sent me the article and I have misplaced it. He thought it was written about Sept. 20 by Jackie ?. Is there any way for me to find this article or for you to email it to me? I have been trying to locate it for about an hour on line and I’m getting no where. The above is about all the information that I can remember about it.
Thank you,
Lucinda Isacksen