The News Tribune Hits Refresh
We were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by a new look over at thenewstribune.com this morning. They’ve redone their site, hopefully making it more user friendly. At least once I find everything …
Link to The News Tribune
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12 comments
N Nick January 14, 2009
Could it be? Will we no longer be assaulted with overzealous advertisements?
Only teasing . . . sort of . . .
R RR Anderson January 14, 2009
inside pages are still bad… thank god for pop up blocker built into firefox.
T travisl January 14, 2009
Under Windows Mobile, it still takes a long time to load the 200KB page, and it’s agonizing to scroll down 2/3 of the way, past all the junk, to get to the actual article. Their mobile site isn’t a great alternative; it seems several hours or even days behind the main site.
S Savvy_Reader January 15, 2009
Is this Laura’s work?
G Gentry January 16, 2009
Yep, Savvy, the redesign was my fault. ;)
Travis, I’m submitting a query to our mobile vendor to find out why the mobile site’s lagging behind. This is the first mention I’ve seen of the problem and you’re right, it’s lagging behind in a few sections (though news updates seems to be alive and well). My guess is unusual characters that are being copied and pasted into the story body are breaking the various feeds that make the mobile site work.
Thorax, we’re still working on some of the browser inconsistencies. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to all of the operating systems and browsers one would need to get it right for every situation.
If you’re curious, I’m running OSX 10.4.1 and primarily use Firefox 3, Safari and Camino, but have tested on Vista and XP in FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7 and Chrome. If anybody wants to donate screenshots of funky behavior to help my cause, I’d happily accept them.
Thanks for the feedback!
D D... I mean, Savvy_Reader January 16, 2009
Oh, I was looking for whom to credit, not whom to blame :-) Besides, I have absolutely no clue what you computer people are talking about.
T Thorax O'Tool January 16, 2009
@ Gentry…
in my original post, I provided a URL to a screenshot of the issues I’m getting with FF on Ubuntu.
Same issues are there today.
T torinaga January 20, 2009
Has there been a conscious effort to rebrand the site to not seem as Tacoma-centric?
Also.
I must admit it chaps my hide a little bit to have Seattle come before Tacoma on our own newspaper’s title bar “Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather…”. It may have said that all along, but I never noticed until the layout change.
R RR Anderson January 20, 2009
The Trib is in a sticky situation because there are many ‘news tribunes’ that’s why they had to go with ‘TheNewsTribune.com’ in their url. I hate typing all that so I use their old url TRIBNET.COM I’d like to see them go with Tacoma-NT.com
T torinaga January 21, 2009
I still use tribnet as well. I hope they are planning on continuing to renew that domain.
D Derek staff January 21, 2009
Tribnet.com is all I use too. I’m glad I’m not alone.
R RR Anderson January 21, 2009
hey did you know that own tacomanewstribune.com also? it’s like they acknowledge that everyone knows that’s their name, yet they still bitterly cling to their lamewad generic name… probably for tax/legal reasons.
i’ll illustrate with an example:
“Dang those guys I wanna sue them for what they said about me being a slumlord!” …calls lawyer… “Hey, I wanna sue the news tribune”
lawyer: “yeah which one?”
… insert fog horn waaah waaah sound fx…