Welcome to the brand new InsideCatholic! Almost exactly three years ago, we launched the initial version of the site. While we’re proud of that effort, it was very much a first step.
This is our second.
As Deal mentioned in his morning column, we’ve designed this next iteration of IC to take full advantage of social networking, and will soon expand it to mobile devices as well. Not only that, but over the next few weeks, we’ll be announcing several exciting new Web features, including regular mini-documentaries and interview shows. We’ve also added the wildly popular Tweetboard — a kind of micro-forum that allows you to follow our writers’ Twitter accounts… and interact with them if you have your own. You’ll want to check that throughout the day. And did we mention our new writers and bloggers? Expect a few surprises…
Yes, we have big — and longterm — plans.
Of course, at the moment, InsideCatholic is bit of a construction zone. We’re still fixing errors and hooking up the features, some of which could only be addressed once the site was live. That’s the nature of any launch — you know there will be problems, but you hope to minimize them, and in time, eliminate them entirely.
That’s our intention, but it’s going to take a little time. And so, two announcements:
- We’ll be making a lot of bug fixes and style improvements over the next few weeks, so this is not the finished product. (In techie terms, we’re going to spend August in beta.)
- We have over five thousand feature articles on the site, and several times that number in blog posts. Many of the older pieces in the archives are still unformatted, or are credited to the wrong authors (this is a result of importing huge databases — columns don’t always match up). We’re going to be working feverishly to get all the old stories corrected and looking as good as the rest of the site.
In other words, Patience is our favorite virtue at the moment.
Do enjoy the site — there’s a lot here already, and even the older material has been given a new face. This is the first day in the second life of InsideCatholic.
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best wishes!,…you’re “lookin’ good!”
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god bless!
Thanks Georgie-Ann. We think you’ll like the comment software on this site better than the last!
I like it!
Best Wishes
I like the new format and layout. Thanks!
yes, the comment software is working fine,…i goofed up one set of security images, and very kindly got another chance without “losing all!”,…great!
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I can only find an RSS feed for the articles. Is there one for blog posts that I’m missing?
Otherwise, great redesign!
Hi, Chris — We’re working on getting the RSS feed for the blog up and running, so keep an eye out for that. Glad you like the new look!
Looking good! very user friendly for non-tech types like me…
Dear Deal and the team at Inside Catholic
Congratulations on the wonderful new version of “Inside Catholic”. As you know, it always accompanies my morning coffee and this weekend was quite barren without it! The new version is aesthetically beautiful, filled with the same quality, news, views and insights which have made it one of my “first reads” every day. This revision also bodes well for your continued use of the ever changing tools of the trade in this New Missionary Age.
your friend and deacon
Deacon Keith Fournier
Great post! Time management is so vital to any business particular for any network business. Management is a description of the culture, attitude and organization of a company that aims to provide, and continue to provide.
Thanks
As I mentioned to Mark Shea, love the new spiffy look, and I’m not trying to be abrasive when I say ya’need a little more buffing on the search-engine side of things: the results as listed are not linked to the articles themselves but only a generic placeholder that leads nowhere, for example:
http://www.insidecatholic.com/…lice.html
http://www.insidecatholic.com/?task=view“…
I’d be most obliged if you would please pass this to the ArchGeek-in-Charge, thanks!
Hi Clare,
No worries — you’re not being abrasive at all. We appreciate your help.
I just used the search with Firefox and Safari, and both worked, with results linking to the articles. Could you try it again? It may have been fixed.
Great post! Time management is so vital to any business particular for any network business. Management is a description of the culture, attitude and organization of a company that aims to provide, and continue to provide.
Thanks