Discussions about newspaper web design, programming, features and advertising. This forum is dedicated to the topic of promoting, building and asking questions about newspapers online.
No matter what type of web model you are using for your newspaper, advertising is key in many regards. Our development team makes it easy to add, manage and create many types of advertising campaigns on your site, but the bottom line comes down to actually selling those ads.
As newspaper websites continually change to keep ahead of the curve, so do the style of your reporters. In the past, reporters sat at their desks making calls, covering meetings and interviewing sources.
Today, reporters are reporting live time, on scene at the speed of information.
Just wanted to give the newspaper web development team at Maine Web FX some kudos for being named the Best Newspaper Web Development Company of 2009 for their work on the Addison Independent's website(http://www.addisonindependent.com), which they have managed for more than 6 years.
Last week, there was a bit of a silly fight over the NY Times publishing an article noting that blogs sometimes publish rumors. I didn't find the story to be all that bad, actually, as it did a fair job explaining why those blogs publish rumors without confirmation, and how they do it in a reasonable way (i.e., saying it's a rumor and hasn't been confirmed).
By Jennifer Saba
(Editor & Publisher | Full Article Link)
NEW YORK The number of people visiting newspaper Web sites hit a new high in Q1 with an average of 73.3 million unique users, a 10.5% jump compared to the same period a year ago.
Covering breaking news immediately with small or shrinking staffs can be difficult at any organization.
That was, until now.
Matthew Stoff of The (Nacogdoches) Daily Sentinel shared an excellent Twitter breaking news widget tutorial (including the code needed) that he and Lead Developer David Durrett created.
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