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UPDATED: Welcome to Our New Website

By Beacon Staff

We have been working on our new website for a better part of a year. And it truly was a collaborative effort. With help from my staff, I pieced together a rough draft. Steve Larson, our designer, drew up the pages. And Kyle Dennis, our webmaster, built the site while patiently putting up with me asking daily, “Is it about ready?”

We wanted to make the site lighter and brighter and maintain its easy use. Every feature on the old site made it to the new one. We have added a couple features, such as the “Out & About” carousel that we will use to plug upcoming events. There is now a permanent spot on the home page for readers to submit their photographs in the “Looking Glass” section. We have also upgraded our server, so the site should run faster.

We will still be working out some kinks on the site over the next few weeks. Take a look around and send me an email with your feedback at [email protected]. And, as always, thanks for reading.

UPDATE: The commenting feature was broken for much of the day, but it should be fixed. Let us know if you are having any problems. Also, the classifieds have been causing some users trouble, but we are currently trying to resolve those. Thanks for your patience.