Comments on: Check out the new roanoke.com homepage design

By: karennag

karennag — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:39:12 +0000

Hi Bill,
Yes, if you are a subscriber, you can access the eTimes. The login page is http://www.roanoketimes.com. Please let us know if you continue to have problems accessing it.

– Karenna, RefreshRT team

By: Bill Sizemore

Bill Sizemore — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:27:53 +0000

Somehow your website to the full electronic newspaper has disappeared. Has this been dropped for subscribers?

By: Wichita

Wichita — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:13:22 +0000

Photos are still way too small. Should be able to click and enlarge.

By: Bob Stepno

Bob Stepno — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:21:36 +0000

One invisible thing — will you have a “print version” stylesheet? With the current site, a student printing this page for reference would use 15 sheets of paper — about a third of it for ads, headers and menus, on a campus computer-lab printer that charges per page. (And college labs charge per page.) [Geeky, I know: "CSS Style Sheet" not to be confused with the popular "Style Street"!]

By: Thomas J Lacey

Thomas J Lacey — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:43:16 +0000

Two thumbs up…….long overdue. It looks like you will be engaging the reader a lot more with this new format. Change is good, stagnant is stale.

By: karennag

karennag — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:50:30 +0000

Glad you like the first pass at the site, Saintbridge. And yes, Peggy, you will find Style Street on the new site.

– Karenna, RefreshRT team.

By: Peggy Quesenberry

Peggy Quesenberry — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:29:00 +0000

Please don’t forget the Style Street Section!!

By: Saintbridge

Saintbridge — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:10:50 +0000

I applaud the new look. I know how hard it is to redesign a newspaper — and the accompanying web page — and both are exceedingly hard to do w/o alienating viewers/readers.

Looks like you have fairly straddled the line here with a crisp design, easy navigation and some what appear to be standard positions for news.

Keep forging ahead. Congrats to the team from one who has been there! Nicely done. Just don’t let them pay you in chile from the TT!

By: Gretchen Ninestein

Gretchen Ninestein — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:19:24 +0000

Looks great! I love reading the Times online, both the NYTimes and Roanoke Times. I think you have done a tremendous job keeping up with technology with limited financial resources. I agree with previous posts that the search engine has been the biggest weak spot on the website in the past. I look forward to interacting with the new changes! Graphics look spot on…

By: Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:51:45 +0000

I’ve been perusing the Roanoke Times’ web sites for a good many years, since I haven’t lived at home since I left in 1977. I have to tell you that the design is, to me, immaterial. I can figure that out. I can work out the navigation. Unless this “new version” actually contains an increased amount of news and feature and sports article CONTENT, I will basically note no meaningful change.