Is The T-D Website About to Finally Change?
I logged on to the Times-Dispatch web site and stumbled across what may be a soon to be announced revamp of their web site.
It was a template page for their Orange County (Va) Review newspaper but with no content visible, just a shell. When I clicked on the real Orange County site it was filled with content using the same template (pictured).
I clicked the links below to the other papers listed in the area (Daily Progress, Madison Co.) and sure enough those sites - all Media General owned papers - had switched to a similar template but were already populated with their local news.
Is it a sign of things to come for the T-D?
The template looks soooo much better than the old one, but at first glance, the functionality on those other Media General sites does not seem terribly different.
The drop down menus, the easier RSS (etc) buttons, and the very noticeable focus on video news stand out the most, along with slightly larger ads.
We will have to wait and see if the T-D web site appears as the others already have. If so, they have done a good job of keeping it a secret or I am not reading closely enough.
Until then the web site is empty and devoid of content.
Insert your own joke here......
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UPDATE: (4:49pm) The old site is back up - maybe it was just a mix up. Have to wait and see.
It was a template page for their Orange County (Va) Review newspaper but with no content visible, just a shell. When I clicked on the real Orange County site it was filled with content using the same template (pictured).
I clicked the links below to the other papers listed in the area (Daily Progress, Madison Co.) and sure enough those sites - all Media General owned papers - had switched to a similar template but were already populated with their local news.
Is it a sign of things to come for the T-D?
The template looks soooo much better than the old one, but at first glance, the functionality on those other Media General sites does not seem terribly different.
The drop down menus, the easier RSS (etc) buttons, and the very noticeable focus on video news stand out the most, along with slightly larger ads.
We will have to wait and see if the T-D web site appears as the others already have. If so, they have done a good job of keeping it a secret or I am not reading closely enough.
Until then the web site is empty and devoid of content.
Insert your own joke here......
~
UPDATE: (4:49pm) The old site is back up - maybe it was just a mix up. Have to wait and see.
posted by Jon Baliles | 4:17 PM
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