This semester, the Buchtelite completely revamped its Website. First off, we moved from College Publisher to Wordpress (something that I would strongly recommend to anyone using College Publisher). This gave us a lot more flexibility with the design of the Website and removed a lot of the headaches we've had in the past while using College Publisher. Now, the Website is much more streamlined, much more reliable and much more attractive. However, we could still be doing more.
Unfortunately, having an editorial staff as small as 12 people makes it very difficult to do everything we would like to. Ideally, we would be posting new stories online on a daily basis. If, for example, you wanted to find out whether the Zips won or lost over the weekend, you could log onto buchtelite.com and find out. To make up for this we try to have the sports blog updated as often as possible, but sometimes we just can't make it work in time (This is in no way discrediting our sports editor Chris Coon - he is a very hard worker and does a lot behind the scenes).
Also, we have puzzle solutions and polls on the website. This is all well and good, but I would love to have video and audio available as well. These would either be their own stories or they would be part of another story. Again - in a perfect world we would have been doing this all along, but with such a small staff these things can be difficult to organize and take advantage of.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I have all intentions on adding new features to our Buchtelite Website in the future. The only question that I can't answer yet is how long into the future this could be.
Have a swell day!
David
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