Sunrise
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)
January 13th, 2008 at 8:06 am (#)
wow, some very cool stuff. Congrats! It looks great!
January 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm (#)
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???)
January 17th, 2008 at 2:22 am (#)
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.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 am (#)
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?