Visitors to the Omaha World-Herald's website, Omaha.com, will see a new, cleaner look when they log on Monday morning.
The revamped site will feature drop down menus, fewer navigational images and eventually more audio and video news offerings. The transformation will take place Sunday night, but will not be heavily promoted outside of the announcements already in place on the website.
"We want to give ourselves a chance to make sure everything is up and burned in before we start banging the drum," said Mike Geppert, Director of Marketing for the World-Herald. "We already get an enormous amount of traffic so if we draw a lot more users around the launch date, we're adding another variable to (an already complicated) launch."
The site has more than 300,000 registered users, Geppert said, and gets between 12 and 15 million page views each month. According to rankings by Alexa.com, Omaha.com receives more traffic than any other news outlet website in the Omaha metropolitan area.
The five employees of Omaha.com work nearly around the clock to post stories from the newspaper and generate original content when breaking news warrants. Their offices are housed with other editorial departments on the seventh floor of the World-Herald's new building at 1314 Douglas St.
2 comments:
COULD YOU HAVE THE POWERS THAT BE EXPLAIN WHY OMAHA.COM HAS HAD NO COVERAGE OF THE MURDER-SUICIDE IN WEST OMAHA ???? 5 PEOPLE ARE DEAD ...WE ARE 15 AND A HALF HOURS INTO THE INCIDENT AND THERE IS NOTHING POSTED .....
AT LEAST THE TV WEBSITES ARE UPDATING WITH THE FEW MEAGER FACTS THEY ARE BEING SPOON FED BY THE COPS.....
Although I am not a spokesperson for Omaha.com, I would venture to guess that the website transition to the new interface - scheduled for Sunday afternoon/evening - is taking place.
Thus, no updates will be made to the site, as specified in a disclaimer on the home page.
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