Sunrise

Posted by: Zach Wise    Tags:  , , ,     Posted date:  January 11, 2008  |  4 Comments

Las Vegas Sun Multimedia
Las Vegas Sun Old Site ScreenshotLas Vegas Sun New Site

The new Las Vegas Sun website finally launched today!!

Las Vegas is a city full of strange stories and stranger characters. It’s really a wonderland for journalism and I’m really excited about the direction the Sun is going in.

  • Blogs are a main feature in the site and we have some great political bloggers such as Patrick Coolican.
  • All the video shot for the site is shot in HD and can be downloaded in iPod size and 720p with more formats to come.
  • Photo slide-shows can be viewed full-screen and they dynamically pull in the largest photo your screen can view instead of simply upscaling a smaller photo.
  • Full 360-degree audio/visual panoramas that are recorded in surround sound.
  • Widgets everywhere! A new widget called the phudio (photo/audio) will probably be used quite a bit on a daily basis. Check out Faces of Hope as an example.
  • No Ads!!! (for now)
  • Great design that is flexible and doesn’t feel like a template. Most of the work on the design was done by Tyson Evans
  • Awesome photographers utilizing multimedia like Leila Navidi (Lessons of War, Faces of Hope), and Tiffany Brown (One Fight Contract)
About the author
Zach Wise is an award-winning former Senior Multimedia Producer for The New York Times and Associate Professor at Northwestern University.



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  • http://bobsacha.com bob sacha

    wow, some very cool stuff. Congrats! It looks great!

  • http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/ Mindy McAdams

    Zach, WHY no ads?

    I think the design is gorgeous, but … don’t ads pay the bills in Las Vegas? (You got slots supporting that newspaper???)

  • http://digitalartwork.net Zach Wise

    We will have ads, eventually. The old site was so bad, we thought we needed a couple of months to rebuild our base before taking it to advertisers.

  • Avery H

    nice site, very cool. Good work on the MC fire too.
    How is the HD video streaming handled? In house servers or a 3rd party vendor?