Welcome to the new WRGW News

If you've never visited our site before, you might have noticed we've made a lot of major changes.  We've spent the past two months working on a brand new site that is intuitive and attractive, and we're excited to share the final result with you.

If you've regularly followed our news blog you're probably shocked to see the dramatic change of appearance (in a good way, hopefully).  The new website gives us a a better medium to share more breaking campus news stories, exclusives, feature stories, and editorials.

We'll give you a little walkthrough that covers the new features and layout of the new site.

1. New Logo - We went for a more modern, iconic logo, with obvious attention paid to the colors of the words in WRGW News.

2. Animated Headlines - On every page, you'll see an animated graphic that shows you the tops stories of the day along with a little blurb about it.  Clicking on the title takes you right to the story.

3. Featured Content - On the right hand side of the site you'll see the"Featured Content" and "Flickr Stream"sections where we'll post all the latest videos, Flickr galleries, sound bites, and pictures that showcase the latest news and stories on the site.  We're making a big push to go beyond simply written content and focus more on visuals and audio for a more unique way to get your news and analysis.

4. Chat Box - If you want to make a general comment about the website, news coverage, or stories, feel free to take use of the "Cbox" which is a live chat room embedded right on our website.  Just try to keep it clean!

5. Commenting System - We're using the widely popular Disqus commenting system that allows you to comment using your facebook or twitter login if you so choose to.  You can comment anonymously, and we promise you won't hurt our feelings as long as you keep the comments clean and appropriate.

6.  New Facebook Fan Page - We now have a nifty facebook fan page which we encourage you to join.  We'll post major stories on the fan page, so you can keep track of us on your newsfeed.

Finally for good measure, here's what our old website looked like.

We feel like the new WRGWnews.com is a huge improvement.  Let us know what you think.