The site replicates the look and feel of the fortnightly magazine and features new fonts, and channels that mirror the magazine content, including News, Briefing, our features repository Knowledge Bank, and Community.
Based on reader feedback, we’ve also introduced a number of new News Channels, defined by market rather than technology, but for those of you still looking for the latest product news, this can be found in the Product Portfolio channel.
However, the biggest change is that PrintWeek has moved to a new HTML5-based platform featuring responsive design, which automatically optimises our content for smartphones and tablets.
“So far this year, 15% of our web traffic has been via mobile devices, primarily iOS, and that’s rapidly growing, so it’s vitally important that we deliver our content in a format that works as well on mobile devices as it does on desktops,” said PrintWeek editor Darryl Danielli.
If your browser is still showing the old-look website, it may be because you’re viewing a cached site. Your browser should update this soon, but you can speed up this process by restarting your browser or emptying your cache.
As well as the new-look site, we’re also working on launching a new, fully functioning online version of the Top 500 in the coming weeks.
However, we’ve suspended the online Buyers’ Guide, while we investigate new platforms to deliver the content.
We hope you like the new PrintWeek website, but we appreciate that many of you will be used to the old site’s taxonomy and functionality and while we’ve done everything we can to incorporate the best bits of the old site into the new site, we appreciate that we can’t please all of our 100,000 monthly users all of the time.
So, with this in mind, we’ve brought the launch date forward to enable us to show you the ‘beta’ version while we continue to fine-tune some elements over the next two weeks. We would welcome your feedback on how we can improve it further, so if you have any suggestions, please email darryl.danielli@markallengroup.com.
We’ve also redesigned our daily and weekly bulletins, which also go live today, so you should have uninterrupted bulletin service. If you would like to start receiving bulletins, you can register and select from the available list here.
