Its been great reading all the compliments weve received on our new Web site the past few days. Thanks to everyone whos put in a kind word, and those too who have offered constructive criticism. Every opinion matters to us, and will help us continue to develop the Web site.
Somewhat unlike a newspaper, a Web site is an ever-changing thing. Changes are able to be made more quickly.
So if we do something one day on the Times online site and dont like it, we can do something different the next. Just three days into the new Web site, I suspect it will always be that way.
One thing we havent quite decided yet is what time to post the stories that appear in the newspaper each day. On our Wednesday launch day, we scheduled everything new for the day to appear on the page precisely at noon. The past few days, weve set them to post immediately, whenever were done posting them.
Today, I posted all of the news, sports, views and record news between 11:15 and noon. A photo gallery got posted at about 12:15. People who visited our site at 11:30 and noon would have seen much different sets of stories.
We know that the lunch time is a heavy site traffic time. Like me, a lot of people in Green and Lafayette counties must eat lunch at their desk and look at the Times Web site. By the way, could you pass the ketchup?
Anyway, our goal is to get everything from the current days newspaper posted by noon. But you also might see things appear on the site in stages between 11 a.m. and noon.
Which do you prefer?
Somewhat unlike a newspaper, a Web site is an ever-changing thing. Changes are able to be made more quickly.
So if we do something one day on the Times online site and dont like it, we can do something different the next. Just three days into the new Web site, I suspect it will always be that way.
One thing we havent quite decided yet is what time to post the stories that appear in the newspaper each day. On our Wednesday launch day, we scheduled everything new for the day to appear on the page precisely at noon. The past few days, weve set them to post immediately, whenever were done posting them.
Today, I posted all of the news, sports, views and record news between 11:15 and noon. A photo gallery got posted at about 12:15. People who visited our site at 11:30 and noon would have seen much different sets of stories.
We know that the lunch time is a heavy site traffic time. Like me, a lot of people in Green and Lafayette counties must eat lunch at their desk and look at the Times Web site. By the way, could you pass the ketchup?
Anyway, our goal is to get everything from the current days newspaper posted by noon. But you also might see things appear on the site in stages between 11 a.m. and noon.
Which do you prefer?
