At 10 a.m. this morning, Kansas.com moved. We’re hoping you didn’t notice.
For weeks, our staff here in Wichita and a host of folks at McClatchy Interactive, our parent company’s online division, have been re-creating Kansas.com in a new computer system. Each of about 160 standing pages of the site had to be re-created from scratch on new servers, using powerful new software that we in Wichita were introduced to just last month.
The result — we hope — is a relatively seamless transition. Most of the pages of the new site have been designed to be nearly the same as they were in the old one. A few things have moved, though, and a few things have been discontinued. If you think something is missing, we encourage you to look again. It may just be at a different spot on the page, or it may have gained a new title or position in the navigation menus on the left side of the page.
But, if you can’t find something, let us know. It might have been overlooked. Indeed, if you find anything wrong with the new site — a broken link, garbled pages, forms that don’t work — don’t hesitate to tell us. We’ve set up the e-mail address fixit@wichitaeagle.com to collect your reports of problems with the new site. You can also use the site’s feedback form.
Although we’ve designed the new site to look just like the old one, we expect our new system to soon make possible a host of new things that you’ll find useful or entertaining or both. We expect, too, to find ways to make the site easier to navigate and even more interactive than it is now. In a few short years, WE Blog and our discussion boards have become fantastic communities where Kansans can connect on a host of topics. We’re certain there are dozens of other communities waiting to be created.
If you have some ideas about that, or the future of Kansas.com in general, we’d love to hear them. We invite you to discuss your ideas in the comments below.
— Nick Jungman, senior editor for interactive, and the Kansas.com team
15 Comments
so where is breaking news now?
Mary, breaking news still flows into a category on the home page called News Updates. If you are linking directly to the News Updates page, that link has changed. It is now http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/.
I’ve always loved reading newspapers. And I’ve always been interested in the newspaper business — I started reading Editor and Publisher long ago when I was a teenager. So I appreciate the Wichita Business Journal’s coverage of the Eagle, and, frankly, I wish you covered the Eagle and McClatchy as least as well as the Business Journal does, if not much better!
Bill, not quite sure what you mean by covering the Eagle as well as the Business Journal Does. Why would the business Journal cover the Eagle..
Do you mean you wish the Eagle covered Business as well as the Business Journal?
And no, I dont work for the Eagle :p
Erik, I think Bill’s comment is actually referring to an earlier post here: http://blogs.kansas.com/the_editors_desk/2007/03/showing_us_some.html
Bill, I’ll always welcome your interest in The Eagle and the news business. If you like following news about the news industry, you might like Jim Romenesko’s site (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45) — it’s a must-read for most journalists every day.
Sherry
aiiggh — you canned the daily on-line sudoku and that 4-square word puzzle…Well that tears it — I’m holding my breath and turning blue until it returns!
Kent, sudoku and crossword will return, perhaps by tomorrow. Those are by far the most popular of our puzzles. We have dropped the others, though, as we couldn’t justify the cost relative to the number of users they had.
I miss the four square word game and jigsaw puzzle!!!
I can no longer view the Eagle with my smartphone. Left side of the screen is cut off and headlines are all over the place.
Under Comics A to Z
Where is “For Better or For Worse”?
Sarah, we are tweaking the site and hope we can get more reliable display across more platforms soon. It’s hard for us to know exactly how the site is going to behave on any given smartphone. (It actually displays better now on my Palm Treo.) A mobile-optimized site is definitely on our wish list. Stick with us!
Janice, please see my new blog post on changes to the Comics & Games page: http://blogs.kansas.com/the_editors_desk/2007/03/missing_comics_.html
I really miss the jigsaw puzzle, fun to relax after lunch.
I haven’t checked the blog re: missing comics,
but would also say that my husband and I
both miss Pickles and For Better or Worse.