Archive for July, 2009
Day 1 of redesigning cm-life.com: Organizing for simplicity
Today has been a grueling day, the first of many to come over the next month. I began my foray into the CSS/PHP world on WordPress, with the help of CoPress’ Daniel Bachhuber (who, at the end of this, I’ll be sure to thank a thousand times), in redesigning Central Michigan Life’s Web presentation.
The logo [...]
Tomorrow, it begins: The official redesign of Central Michigan University’s student newspaper
One of my biggest projects as a young journalist and my first as editor-in-chief of Central Michigan Life embarks early tomorrow afternoon: The redesign of cm-life.com, the Web site for the student newspaper at Central Michigan.
This is a project that has been in the talks for more than a year. We began thinking redesign sometime [...]
Conversing digitally at public events using Twitter
PORTFOLIO UPDATE
+1 Page Design (”Savory Sensations”)
It’s amazing how a simple networking tool such as Twitter can be used in so many ways to communicate. The Grand Rapids Press, a newspaper crazier about Twitter than most, introduced me to another this summer.
Grand Rapids hosted its 40th annual Festival of the Arts, one of the biggest West [...]
My initial thoughts on AnnArbor.com, the now-live online news organization
Late Thursday night, the party came early for AnnArbor.com. The site went live for the first time in replacement of The Ann Arbor News, which ended its long run the same day.
Like I said in the previous entry, this is a big step for not just Ann Arbor, but for the journalism industry in general. [...]
All eyes are on AnnArbor.com on Friday
Friday is a historic day for Michigan journalism.
As one of eight Booth newspapers ends its 174-year run as a community staple, a new digital publication embarks that day which, for all we know, could symbolize a desperately needed transition in the state’s journalism industry.
The Ann Arbor News, a newspaper in the town of about 114,000 [...]
