Media: State Journal-Register switching Web sites this week
By Billy Dennis, Peoria Pundit administrator
While I have yet to see an announcement on the Journal Star’s Website (perhaps I missed it), the Springfield’s GateHouse Media newspaper is keeping its readers informedof the coming changes, with a nice long story detailng what is coming:
The State Journal-Register’s Web site will look different when you log on Tuesday night. Sj-r.com will change from using a homegrown computer program for managing stories to one used by newspapers nationwide. Called Zope, the program will result in a cleaner, more up-to-date look for the Web site and allow reporters and editors to post from anywhere they have Internet access.
And:
- The site will be able to handle large numbers of visits at one time. In the past, big breaking news has led to traffic bottlenecks that slowed visitors’ access to the site.
- The site will better present the many video and photo galleries the site offers daily.
- The new system will allow easier story updating and will better present some of the features we have.
Thanks for the transparency, Springfielders. No doubt the new sites in Springfield and Peoria will resemble what’s used in Galesburg.
I still recommend that newspapers start planning for the permanent transition from dead tree journalism to online-only, and stop using their free Web sites simply to scare away online-only start-ups.
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Geeez… With a top of the Sunday front page article on changes to their web site, PLUS a commentary by the publisher inside opposite the editorial, how could you miss the SJ-R’s announcement of site changes??? I’m not expecting a lot. They still have nothing on their site (at 1:20) about a pretty large fire in a southwest side duplex overnight. For the last couple of weeks, there has been more statewide “breaking” (?) news than there has been local breaking stuff or even updates. I do expect more ad space on the new site, and I assume the new ownership will regard that as an improvement.