Thursday, March 08, 2007

The web sites of NZ newspapers are pathetic

Someone please recommend a good web design company to the newspaper folks here. Its amazing as to how little content they have on their website. I've been trying to research the food and kid scene in Wellington, and the newspapers dont help. A few weeks ago, we thought about subscribing to the Christchurch Press, and it took me a fairly long time to find how to subscribe. Obviously, u cannot do it online. You send them email, they tell you to go buy the paper, cut and fill the subscription form and send it in. Can someone please pull them into the internet age

If you think I'm exaggerating, see for yourself the fine web sites of The Nelson Mail, The Christchurch Press and the Dominion Post. They don't have the restaurant reviews online, or stuff about the city / place. Please take a look at the SF Chronicle or the NY Times to see how a real newspaper's website should look like. Maybe the parent website Stuff should stop the practice of producing cookie cutter newspaper sites

Ok, enough venting for now ..

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