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Winnipeg Culture & Entertainment: Weeklies launch new website

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      CommentAuthorJupitergal
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006 edited
     
    The community weeklies have FINALLY launched their new website! Hooray!

    It's been in the works forever and the end result is pretty damn good, if I
    do say so myself. It's certainly easier to navigate than... well, every
    other news site I've come across.

    This current week's paper is online, with several back issues also there.
    More back issues will be added as time goes on.

    I'd love your opinion. Check it out at http://www.canstarnews.com/index1.php

    There are still some features not fully live yet, but I'd like your opinion!
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      CommentAuthorMaxed
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006
     
    My personal opinion.
    Bland, but to the point.
    I do not like having PDF content loaded in an iframe. Prefer to have native text for the pages. But that is just at a glance.
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      CommentAuthorJupitergal
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006
     
    Umm, is that what you get?? That's totally our old website.
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      CommentAuthorJupitergal
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorMaxed
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006 edited
     
    yup. thats what I get.
    Cannot be cookies/cache as I have never been there and refreshed my cash twice.
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      CommentAuthorMaxed
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006
     
    HUGE improvement.
    I like it a lot now.
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      CommentAuthorJupitergal
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006
     
    Hmm. So much for "Oh, yeah, our website is up!"
    • CommentAuthorallstonj
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006
     
    It's up. I got the new site and it's a huge improvement over the previous one.
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      CommentAuthorSputnik
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006
     
    It would be nice to be able to download the entire weekly in a single PDF file.
    • CommentAuthoralex
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2006
     
    [quote][cite] Jupitergal:[/cite]Hmm. So much for "Oh, yeah, our website is up!"[/quote]

    Welcome to my world. :wink:
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    I saw on TV yesterday that the Daily Newspapers are having an income problem in that many people have stopped running classifieds, in favour of Craigslist, which is a no charge method of advertising, or other internet methods.
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      CommentAuthorSputnik
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007
     
    A friend of mine sells corporate advertising for the Weeklies and he isnt having any problems finding or keeping clients.
    • CommentAuthoralex
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007
     
    I suspect that the news report was directed at the dailies, and not the weeklies. Keeping daily business is seven times harder than weeklies, right?
    :bigsmile:
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    [quote][cite] alex:[/cite]It won't translate the old school smileys like the old forums did.

    Typing ":)" won't do anything. You have to use any of the smileys on the row below the reply box.[/quote]

    I nver see smileys there. none at all. they disappeared one day and I have not seen them since. :-(
    • CommentAuthoralex
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007
     
    Yeah, rick screwed up the smileys.
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    The site looks nice. I have to admit I almost NEVER read the weeklies. Sometimes my parents save a Herald for me if something about my old school or an old buddy is in it but that's about it. I've always lived in apartments so I've never had it home delivered.

    With the website and even the paper copies what happened to the "legend". They used to say in the masthead "Serving the communities of ". That's been dropped so the odd time when I am at the Libarary I forget which paper is for my old neighbourhood, which covers where I am now. it would be nice if it said right on the paper so you would know at a glance.
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      CommentAuthorJupitergal
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007
     
    I agree with you mrchristian. Sometimes, it's a matter of space. We've been through some re-designs and things can get lost or forgotten about, too. Plus, there are an awful lot of neighbourhoods in Winnipeg, too. Maybe we can come up with something more generic.
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    [quote][cite] Jupitergal:[/cite]I agree with you mrchristian. Sometimes, it's a matter of space. We've been through some re-designs and things can get lost or forgotten about, too. Plus, there are an awful lot of neighbourhoods in Winnipeg, too. Maybe we can come up with something more generic.[/quote]

    Haha, quickly reading this, I thought you'd written: "Pluse, there are a lot of awful neighbourhoods in Winnipeg, too."
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      CommentAuthorJupitergal
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007
     
    LOL, no. :D

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