Tried to link to an N&R article for the previous post. The new N&R search function sent me to a page that is blank but for a headline and clip-art image; from what I'm hearing about the new N&R search function that's actually a pretty good result.
Also, why does "news-record.com" (as opposed to dubdubdubdot news-record.com) send me to oblivion instead of the place I obviously want to go? It's nearly 2013, I have no time for prefixes. It doesn't happen in IE, just Chrome, so I guess it's no big deal.
It's not giving me that problem in Chrome. Could be a cache deal maybe? Also, I am enjoying their mobile app while they work the kinks out of the site.
Posted by: Account Deleted | Nov 29, 2012 at 04:21 PM
Same problem on iPad.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Nov 29, 2012 at 05:07 PM
"It's not giving me that problem in Chrome"
Chrome is probably auto-filling.
Posted by: formerly gt | Nov 29, 2012 at 05:25 PM
Could be cache, could be DNS propagating (that's what we tell people), and formerly, I have auto-filling turned off in Chrome. Mine is now auto-redirecting to the "www" site in Chrome (last known good, I guess, re-applied), and that's definitely good cache.
Posted by: Sue | Nov 29, 2012 at 06:21 PM
Mine was auto-fill. What would we do without Google to think for us?
Posted by: Account Deleted | Nov 29, 2012 at 06:42 PM
The site is atrocious. The clip art, used just about everywhere, is worse.
What a waste.
Posted by: MojoNixon | Nov 29, 2012 at 08:09 PM
Same problem with Firefox.
Posted by: Thomas | Nov 30, 2012 at 07:46 AM
Here too, on Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Dolphin. It's easy to fix.
Posted by: Roch | Nov 30, 2012 at 07:56 AM
Happening to me on Firefox, too, but my colleague, also using Firefox, doesn't have the problem. Her Firefox autofills the www, while mine autofills http://, but no www. She goes to the site; I go to Ed's oblivion.
I wonder if Al Gore has these problems.
Posted by: Peggy Hickle | Nov 30, 2012 at 09:15 AM
I found the easiest way to search the N&R is through the Gso Public Library website. You need a library card.
http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/index.aspx?page=780
Click on "Databases and Online Services"
Click on News & Record
It will ask for your library card number.
You can search (free of charge) articles for the last 15 years (maybe longer).
The website has a lot of external content. Check it out! (no pun intended)
Posted by: Nancy Vaughan | Nov 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Best N&R search not via N&R site tells you something not good about N&R site.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Nov 30, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I got an email last night from an editor at another paper that is undergoing a redesign, had read about the N&R's problems and said, "Please tell me how we can avoid a disaster like this." If the individual hadn't been a good and longtime friend, I'd've spent this morning negotiating a consultant's deal. As it is, from what was shared with me about their efforts to date and their plans leading up to soft launch (!) later this spring, they're in no danger anyway.
Posted by: Lex | Nov 30, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Isn't the obvious advice to first hire someone who knows how to build websites? The N&R illustrates perfectly the problem of people in charge who don't know how to do what they are directing to be done.
Posted by: Roch | Nov 30, 2012 at 01:05 PM
Peter principle in action.
Posted by: Fec | Nov 30, 2012 at 01:16 PM