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July 15, 2008
Website launch
Although our new look website has been up and running for a while now - this week it's being officially launched to the outside world.
Development of the site is still very much on-going and we will continue to add new features, although I have to say that already it is proving a great source of news stories as I have mentioned in previous postings.
The great beauty of the site is the ability to break news as it happens across the borough, something the news team at the Gazette are excited about.
A good example will be tomorrow morning when many Hillingdon borough council staff will be on strike as part of a pay dispute.
It is likely they will picket the Civic Centre in Uxbridge High Street and we will be able to report on this as it happpens on the website, rather than wait a week for the story to appear in the Gazette - when it's pretty much old news anyway.
As we move forward online and print content will work hand in hand and the Gazette newspaper and website will compliment each other - it's certainly exciting times.
This week's print version of the Gazette is now safely finished and a late flurry of decent stories yesterday makes it a good read, with a number of community talking point stories.
I hope that some of these stories will prompt readers to comment through the website and I would welcome your views and thoughts on the new look site.
Posted by aseal at July 15, 2008 4:23 PM