Delco Times revamped; kills permalinks

If you haven’t visited the Delco Times web site recently, they changed the format. (The changes appear to be in the pipeline for all of the other sites in the network: AllAroundPhilly.com, DailyLocal.com, PhoenixvilleNews.com, Pottstown Mercury.com, TheReporterOnline.com, TimesHerald.com, and the Trentonian.com.)

While more readable than the archaic-looking legacy sites, the new sites are a serious buzzkill for those who linked to any past news articles. They’re all busted. As in kaput. Serious darts to you, tech boys! It’s like you hate the people who drive traffic to you. I don’t get it.

While you’re at it, test out your style sheets in browsers other than Explorer on the PC. I can vouch that your site doesn’t load properly on a Mac with Safari or Firefox.

And while I’m griping, Mr. Heron, you can’t claim to be a blogging editor unless you have a comments section and you link to other sites. Otherwise, it’s just another editorial. The medium is the message.

Anyhoo, thanks to those who wrote comments in to me to tell me about my broken links. It’s all the paper’s fault. Please redirect your complaints to:

Philip E. Heron, Editor of the Daily Times. Email him at editor@delcotimes.com, or call (610) 622-8818.

Posted Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 at 8:20pm
Filed under Regional & Local, The Press, Delaware County, Bloggery | RSS

One Comment on “Delco Times revamped; kills permalinks”

  1. Casey Roncaglione

    One of my first reads is the Delco Times, after daddy democrat of course. I too am confused by the Times’ new format, but I guess they have their reasons for the change.

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