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Story Toolbar Boosts Online Reading Experience
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Story Toolbar: Not what I thougt it was
11/8/2002 4:26:59 PM
Posted By: Per Helge Berrefjord

First thougt when reading "Story Toolbar Boosts Online Reading Experience": At last its here! The navigation tool (page design) making the story itself AND its metaperspective(s), as well as its history in time, its sidelines/connections to other topics, and resources, people and institutions involved (whatever) - equally visible and accessible at one click, like in a toolbar.

Visiting the Sacramento Bee's site with Opera (norwegian-made browser) I saw nothing. Suspecting a non standard code behind the acclaimed feature (Opera keeps strictly to the W3C standards) I switched to Explorer, and found mostly browser tools moved on to the page layout itself (rather small icons remaining on top - and out of sight - when scrolling the story). Nice try, but not at all what I thougt/hoped I would find.
Coming soon at Poynter.org
11/8/2002 12:25:30 PM
Posted By: Steve Outing

Response to Jean (below): Watch Poynter.org late next week, when we're scheduled to introduce a new publishing system for the site. It will have some of the features you've requested.
Sacbee Button Bar
11/8/2002 11:49:32 AM
Posted By: Peter Griffith

As webmaster for new community newspaper( The Londoner, http://www.thelondoner.ca/ ) in London Ontario Canada , have tried to work with some guidelines that make
browsing the website user friendly. These are fast loading, reduce clutter, clean navigation, and give feedback to user on where an internal link will take them. So we have an
informative navigation bar of our own. And unlike the one in the "Bee", it works in both netscape and IE :)

griff:)
website toolbar
11/8/2002 12:07:43 AM
Posted By: jean adelsman

the sacbee tool bar sounds fabulous. could poynter do something similar? i often download poynter pieces -- some of them i want to print out. however, your site is either not as friendly as the bee's or perhaps i simply haven't figured out how to convert your pieces to ready-to-print. thanks, jean adelsman
website toolbar
11/8/2002 12:07:37 AM
Posted By: jean adelsman

the sacbee tool bar sounds fabulous. could poynter do something similar? i often download poynter pieces -- some of them i want to print out. however, your site is either not as friendly as the bee's or perhaps i simply haven't figured out how to convert your pieces to ready-to-print. thanks, jean adelsman
Other sites with similar tools
11/7/2002 2:11:52 PM
Posted By: Rob Pongsajapan

The International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com) and Wired News have some of the same tools. IHT has a 'web clipping' tool that saves stories as well as controls for font size and layout adjustment.
Depends on your browser
11/7/2002 1:40:38 PM
Posted By: Adrian Holovaty

Larry: The sacbee.com tools require a browser capable of relatively fancy DHTML. Netscape 6+, Mozilla, and IE 5.5+ should do the trick.
Same newspaper site?
11/7/2002 1:32:27 PM
Posted By: Larry Lorenz

Are we reading the same site? I gone to sacbee.com with both Netscape and Explorer, and I don't find the same design you describe. Certainly, I couldn't locate any of these, vertically or horizontally:
Two buttons increase or decrease the font size.
One button changes the story's type face, giving readers a
serif and a sans serif version to read.
Three buttons promote other Bee features (wireless alerts,
newsletters, and home-page designation).
There's even a button to give readers access to other stories
written by the same reporter.

Best of all, each button on the toolbar is explained to the
reader with a mouse rollover message.



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