It's a time of reflection here at WFAA.com as we transition to a new publishing system for our Web site.
No doubt you've noticed the changes to our layout and presentation. In making the move, we've tried to streamline some of the categories and options to make it easier for the user, but — as always — there will be some people who aren't happy with the changes, while others may have a hard time finding some of the information they're accustomed to.
This shift — which was launched early Tuesday morning — has been in the works for months now. For us, it's not unlike moving into a new house: There's a front door, a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom, but when you wake up in the middle of the night you can forget where you are!
As soon as we iron out the initial bugs, we'll set to work to add new features (and to find a spot for previous favorites we might have inadvertently overlooked).
This is the fourth major publishing shift for WFAA.com, which was formally launched on September 14, 1995 when we obtained our "domain name" from the Internet overlords. (WFAA had already established a Web presence with Onramp.net for several months before that).
In the early days, the pages were created using the Windows Notepad text editor and a lot of trial and error. It was a bare-bones online publication (see the example above, circa 1996!), but the Internet was a fairly unsophisticated place back then.
When I was growing up, I'd wistfully read books about the early days of radio and television and wonder what it might have been like to help create the broadcasting industry.
In a way, we've been doing the same thing online for the past 15 years; starting with the Internet version of black-and-white television and graduating today to high-definition... and beyond.
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txjosh16 said on November 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Well, at least the first version was clean, straightforward and intuitive. Not bad at all.
txjosh16 said on November 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM
At least the first version was clean, straightforward and intuitive. Not bad at all. And not stuck with this horrible captcha thingy that never seems to work the first time!
txjosh16 said on November 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Actually the captcha worked but gave no indication it had done so. Hope this continued problem will be one of the bugs you guys work out. Sorry for the earlier duplicate post.