Consider it a New Year’s present from The Citizen: after several months of extensive work behind the scenes, we are finally ready to unveil our new website. The new site comes with several additional features and key updates which are sure to enhance your experience browsing our articles.
If you’re reading this on your phone, you may notice that you’re accessing a version of the site custom-built to work well on mobile devices. The first thing you’ll see is a scrolling wheel of feature stories at the top of the homepage. Below, you will be able to browse a bottomless feed of our most recent stories, each with ample story previews.
What else has changed? Our fonts are larger and blacker, which hopefully will make our stories easier to read for everyone. Just below The Citizen logo, there’s a menu that allows you to filter your newsfeed to view Local News, Sports & Recreation, Arts & Entertainment, or Commentary articles. You can also access our Feature stories from here, or our annual Homes & Communities edition, which comes out fresh every March.
If you click on the menu button at the top of the screen, you’ll be able to access several features that used to be available in sidebars: an About page, our Archives, information about Classifieds & Advertising, our monthly Citizen Poll, and Contact info. Advertisers will also find a portal here to upload ads.
The site also contains links to our social media sites, a few of which aren’t active yet—but please bear with us, as they will be updated very shortly in the new year. We’re excited to interact with our readers more across the many social media platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Although all of the main features of the site are up and running, while browsing it’s possible you may encounter a few bugs that haven’t been fully ironed out yet. If that is the case, we ask for your patience as we get everything worked out. In the meantime, feel free to drop us a note and let us know what you think of the site.
We’ve been listening to feedback over the last couple of years, and the site has been designed with you, our readers, firmly in mind.
