2008 Woodie Awards
Pacer to change Web site address, design
Matt Cook
Issue date: 1/16/07 Section: Technology
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With 2007 approaching quickly, our editorial staff decided last semester it was time to move beyond the pacer.utm.edu location and the limitations of its content management system and move to an online publishing company, College Publisher. Over the break they created us a highly customizable new Web site at www.utmpacer.com.
Many universities across America use college publisher because there are many features that are very simple to use and the Web site has a very sleek design.
College Publisher provides message boards, news updates sent to registered users' e-mail, news channels from major syndicated news agencies and archives of past issues (which are still being moved over from our old archive system).
As is true for the archives, most of the features that are available have not been fully explored. Some features we plan on learning and exploring are photo slide shows and podcasts. The Web site's possibilities for presenting news in a variety of media forms will come with time as the staff learns how to better use utmpacer.com to present UTM with news that matters.
One feature that the staff is most looking forward to is the reinstatement of the message boards. A few years ago, The Pacer's old message board was taken down because of many problems, including threats.
With the new message board, students must register with their real name and address. Should the board administrator see that someone is making threats, many security measures can be taken to ensure that a level of professionalism and maturity remains on the boards.
Once we set up the message boards, The Pacer staff encourages students to voice their opinion on events happening in the world. Also, if you have ideas for the newspaper or the Web site, feel free to make a post on the board.
College Publisher gives us more space for online advertisements and online classifieds. With online advertisements, businesses and students can reach a wider audience and have more success selling their product.
As both the university and interest grow, more and more effort will be put into turning utmpacer.com into an online daily newspaper with updates from the campus, community and world.
The excitement is just getting started, so please stick-and click-with us!
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