A great new website
Northumberland News and The Independent are officially one great team.
The newsrooms have been linked via a new website, which can be reached through northumberlandnews.com and indynews.ca.
The new website is a major upgrade over the two previous sites and truly gives us blanket coverage of the vast Northumberland County. If you're interested in all the news of the county, you'll love our homepage, which offers a taste of each zone we cover — including Brighton, Cobourg, Port Hope, Trent Hills, and the rest of the county. But if you're more of a home-body and just want to know what's happening in your town, you can bookmark each zone specifically, and all the news that's appropriate to your area will end up there on a daily basis.
The same goes for sports, opinion columns, letters and editorials.
Not bad, eh.
Plus, you'll notice how big and beautiful photos now are. Plus, we can now publish numerous photos with one story online, which is a fantastic way to fully tell a story. The new site also features wonderful galleries, as our fantastic shooters tell Northumberland's stories in photos.
Another awesome option is the Newsview, which is a geocoding system that shows you where news is happening across the region, and gives people another way to find the stories that matter to them. Check it out, it's a one of a kind.
Plus, if you're still reading this blog (thanks for hanging in there, Dad), you may have accessed it from the box on the front page of the new site. Having such a high-traffic spot should drive more readers to the musings of not only myself, but also Northumberland News reporter Jennifer O'Meara, News Editor Jeanne Beneteau election blog, and also sports guy Jason Chamberlain and humour columnist Neil Crone (a local resident who is an actor on Little Mosque on the Prairie, and one helluva funny guy). The blog bar updates automatically whenever someone posts a blog, so it's always fresh for our readers.
So cruise the site. Check out the functions (a few of which I've likely forgotten to list) and come back every day to get the most comprehensive coverage of Northumberland County available.
I'm still hangin' in there too!
Posted by: Amy | October 16, 2008 at 07:03 AM