We finally got our Lawrence Journal-World website redesign out the door. There is still much left to do, but it’s live and working. The design work here was led by Nathan Borror, with support from Christian Metts, and I personally think it’s brilliant. It’s much cleaner and less cluttered than most newspaper websites, and I think the readability on the site is really, really good. One of my favorite features, as a user of the site, is the new “everything we published today” feature. Unlike most online newspaper archives, this accounts not only for new stories, but also for blog entries, podcasts, photos, galleries, videos, and more.
Like I said, there’s still a lot to do to get LJWorld.com where we want it, but getting this out the door is 90% of the battle. We completely redesigned the site using much cleaner HTML and CSS than before, and we’ve (finally) migrated our own site to use all the latest Ellington goodies our clients have been using for a while now. We’ve set ourselves up for much, much faster iterative development — both from a functionality and design perspective — so we can roll more new stuff our more quickly. Visit site »