VI Daily website

Just saw it for the first time today....wt???????? Not user friendly at all, in my opinion.

Give them time to work the kinks out.

The old site was positively 1990's.

br1k- I found island trader in the classified section. go to "submit an ad" and it'll be right under the ad form.

The old site was simple but effective. If that makes it "90s" so be it. Major newspapers keep the same look for a lot longer than that.

This new design is very low quality, clearly made by someone using ill-fitting templates (I hope they didn't pay much for the hack job). This is not about "working the kinks" out - if the design is bad, it is bad and no amount if "tweaking" will make it good.

Give them time to work the kinks out.

The old site was positively 1990's.

I had the old site in my favorites, now when I hit the site Scranton Newspaper comes up. anyone have an idea how to get the website?
Thanks

I'm not even sure what web site(s) we are talking about.
http://vidaily.com redirects to http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/ which I can see has been drastically redesigned.

http://islandtrader.vidaily.com/ shows a link which goes to http://islandtrader.vidaily.com/index_1.html
I never followed that site before, so I don’t know if it changed.

formerislandgirl: If you can find the new web page you want, then go to it and do "Add to favorites"

Google might help, once they have re-indexed the site(s). You can restrict a search to a specific site by entering the search term as follows:
site:www.virginislandsdailynews.com my search phrase goes here
(be sure not to put a space after the colon)

As a web developer with expertise in usability, I can say that, no matter how outdated the old site was, a web site should never make changes which are so drastic as to baffle their existing user base. If anything, they should have done it in steps, or provided a link like "Where are all the old links?"

Also, if we’re talking about virginislandsdailynews.com, they made the major mistake of breaking all of the links to their old news articles, so everybody’s bookmarks and references are now broken, including links from search engines (until they re-index). Eg, this link about tax refunds which was posted to the forum just 15 days ago http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=17645367 now goes to a page which says, “Sorry, the page you requested could not be found. Please make sure you entered the URL properly.”

Don't like it at all.

As a web guy, I can appreciate the extreme challenge of moving from their old format to the new one. A website like the VIDailyNews is extremely complex. Getting the databases and internal controls working has to come before they start finalizing the appearance. They don't even have their typical raft of advertisements up and running --which is a sign that they are still wrestling with the code behind the site.

You would think they might have launched a BETA site, but it takes money to maintain two sites, and few -if any newspapers are making money these days.

If you charge $1 for 10 pages, your making $$!
Papers in the states would dance for joy to put out a piece of crap pout like that & charge a $1!
There are MANY adverts in those pages, and, we all know it takes (how much, not votes, but $$) to be the best of the VI??

I like the site.Clean and easy to read.

Now if the E Paper would fully load I'd be even happier. They need to work on fully loading the E Paper.

If you charge $1 for 10 pages, your making $$!
Papers in the states would dance for joy to put out a piece of crap pout like that & charge a $1!
There are MANY adverts in those pages, and, we all know it takes (how much, not votes, but $$) to be the best of the VI??

The cost of running a newspaper is largely unrelated to the printing cost.

And how many of us actually buy the paper?