Daily Nebraskan redesign goes live

This has been one heck of a week. For much of my Thanksgiving break and most all of the time since UNL started back to classes, my time has been devoted to one thing: DailyNebraskan.com.

Or more precisely, the new design and content management system for the site.

See the change for yourself: Here is a full-size image of the old site, and then head over to DailyNebraskan.com to see the new one.

Here’s a comparison of the headers and navigation bars, too.

There have been some hiccups along the way, but overall, the transition has been rather painless. (Many kudos to Lara Hanson and her team at College Media Network, as well as my bosses at the DN, for keeping things chugging along.)

The features on the new site that I’m most excited about include its:

  • Clean, simple design
  • Easy-to-use navigation bar. (The old site’s nav bar practically screamed at users not to even try to find the news subpage, for example.)
  • Flexible structure, which is especially useful for sports coverage so we can change what content we highlight based on the season.
  • Options for highlighting multimedia content.

Along with a less cluttered design comes a new content management system. We now are operating on College Publisher 5, which looks and functions almost completely different than its predecessor, College Publisher 4.

The biggest change: The new system uses a round-the-clock publishing platform, rather than an issue-based setup.

Obviously, content is king when it comes to a newspaper’s site, but users also have to be able to easily find that content online.

I think the newest reincarnation of DailyNebraskan.com, finally, allows them to do that.

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