22 July 2010

Telly web design sucks, kills RSS feed to popular content

While most readers here liked to click out to links at the Telegram,  the design geniuses at TransCon have decided they don’t need the traffic.

With the new sucky design for the Transcon websites in the province, they’ve eliminated the RSS feeds for columnists and blogs. As such, your humble e-scribbler can’t give you the easy links off to the latest content from Wangersky, Wakeham, Griffin or Meeker. The feed for news turns out to be the feed to local news only. 

Oh well.

- srbp -

7 comments:

Wm. Murphy said...

What about the Jackson content? Is that impacted by this??

Ursula said...

Chris Noseworthy , Webmaster for the Western Star should instruct some folks at the Telegram .His website appears to function . If I can understand the set up , then someone has done their work .

WJM said...

I didn't think you could make a worse site for viewing on a mobile device than the old Telegram site.





Then along came the new Telegram/Transcontinental template site.

Ouch.

Ed Hollett said...

It's sad to see what has been done to the TransCon papers. These websites are a disservice to the people who work very hard to turn out solid newspapers.

PoscStudent said...

I do like the new look of the site, it is more professional looking but I don't find it great yet to navigate through.

And I never did get on the new site from my blackberry.

Ed Hollett said...

Give it a try on the crackberry and see what you get.

WJM said...

I do like the new look of the site, it is more professional looking but I don't find it great yet to navigate through.

A great looking site with lousy navigation, is like a car, in your favourite colour, with wonky steering, poor brakes, and all its instruments out.