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It's an 'and' universe: responsive design with a companion mobile app 21 Jun 2013 | 01:42 am
We pulled the veil off DoSavannah.com today. It's our first foray into fully responsive Web design, adjusting automatically to viewport size with optimizations for smartphone, tablet and desktop viewe...
Your email marketing is outdated 17 Jun 2013 | 10:01 pm
News alerts, headline pushes, weekly digests, Daily Deals ... most of us running news organizations use email marketing to get the word out and drive website traffic. It's cheap, it's easy, and it add...
Staffers, freelancers and photography 1 Jun 2013 | 02:11 am
The news that the Chicago Sun-Times is laying off its entire photo staff is puzzling on many levels except the financial one: it reeks of desperation. Certainly digital media cries out for more image...
Fear and paywalls 11 Apr 2013 | 08:50 pm
Alan Mutter finds "paywalls" scary. I don't. Here's why: Meters are not walls. As I've said before: It's not a paywall. Meters selectively target users with a demonstrated high affinity for the conte...
Hyperlocal vs. the United States of Generica 8 Mar 2013 | 10:53 pm
Another day, another smooth-talking dotcom entrepreneur with big ambitions runs aground trying to build a national hyperlocal site, or network, or something. Jeff Jarvis has studied the matter and con...
Do-over 7 Mar 2013 | 09:10 pm
Continuing the "free AND paid" theme: Do Savannah, our weekly arts and entertainment section, just had a do-over. Effective today it's redesigned and expanded to 40 pages of expert coverage of arts, m...
Mobile apps and vendors 6 Mar 2013 | 09:50 pm
St. Patrick's Day app from Shoutem Spotted app from Filemobile I'm big on open standards. I use open-source software almost exclusively. I'm an advocate of HTML5 and responsive layout. And I'm not a...
Free and in print 25 Feb 2013 | 10:43 pm
Everybody's talking about paid and digital. But Sunday before last, we launched a product that's free, and in print. Prototype page/> Why? Because print still has an important role to play. Because ...
Why there's no news on our mobile homepage 11 Feb 2013 | 08:46 pm
We recently relaunched our mobile website at SavannahNow.com without a bit of news on the homepage. Web design tools have come a long way since the days of table-driven layout and smartphones have mor...
Pressing on 10 Jan 2013 | 02:09 am
In my new job in Savannah, I'm responsible for print as well as digital audience. It's been awhile since I last dealt with print -- I've been working on the digital side since 1994. A lot has changed ...
