Have Your Say on HR’s New Website
January 20, 2011 15:35 by Alex MargolinWelcome to HR’s new website!
We have completely redesigned our site to make it more attractive, easier to navigate, and – most importantly - much more interactive.
The Internet has changed remarkably in the ten years since we launched our original website. Since then, the traffic to our site has grown exponentially, reaching more than a million page views in 2010. Our new site incorporates many new features while continuing to provide the same hard-hitting reports on media bias against Israel.
Take a tour of the site by clicking on the video below.
The new site is designed to give YOU – the community of HonestReporting readers and supporters – more opportunities to make your voices heard.
Every article on the site has a comments section underneath so you can let us know what you think directly on our site. You can also indicate whether or not you agree with comments posted by other members of the community. At the end or every article, you will also see a list of related articles to provide context and deepen your understanding of the issues we are addressing.
While comments sections are common on many websites, we hope our readers will use the section as a forum for conversations about the media bias issues discussed in the articles. We hope readers take advantage of the forum to respond to one another and turn our site into a hub for the community of people who want to see Israel portrayed fairly in the media.
Further down the site, in you will find a brand new feature – the Weekly Question. Each week we will post a question related to current events and open the forum to all of our readers.
The new site also makes it easier to see what other members of the community are reading and commenting on, so you can immediately join the conversation. One the right column, you’ll see a listing of the most popular and commented on posts.
Besides making our site more interactive, we also worked hard to make it more appealing and easier to use. Our most recent content appears on the strip along the main portion of the site. Just below, in the center column you will find our blog, Backspin.
The blog is updated numerous times daily, so be sure to return to the site often to find out what’s new. We also have a new section featuring highlights about Israel published on other sites, helping keep you informed more broadly about the battle for hearts and minds over Israel.
We hope you enjoy our new site as much as we do. With your help, we can make it a powerful home for anyone who cares about Israel’s image in the media.
blueflash
6:35 pm
Jan 20, 2011
Congratulations! The new site looks, and feels amazing. You guys just keep leading the way – your business like integrity is exactly what Israel, as much as the world of journalism, need right now.
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Myron Lerner
12:15 am
Jan 21, 2011
Shalom Rav!
Congratulations on the renovated website.
I just wanted to comment on the fact that the comments to each article are not readily retrievable and a lot of time is lost while waiting for them. In fact, some of them never even surfaced!
Bi-Verakha Neemana ve-Shabbat Shalom.
M. Lerner
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Curtis Chapline
5:21 am
Jan 21, 2011
Excellent website. Well done!
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Roy Mathai
6:19 am
Jan 21, 2011
Absolutely eye-catching and impressive! Of course, this new design is better than the old one; no doubt about it. It also seduces any viewer of this page to have a serious look what the page has to offer. Keep your good work! I love Israel and I appreciate your efforts to expose the hidden agenda against Israel by certain vested international media outlets.
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glake
6:35 am
Jan 21, 2011
Simple, clean, uncluttered – makes it easy to see and scan all the content items quickly, creating big impact. Inviting, welcoming look
Absolutely designed for your readers. What a great job!
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theknopfknows
6:40 am
Jan 21, 2011
Great web-site YOU GUYS ARE PUMPING, one Question why You tube cuts out your volume can not hear you what is with that, Looking forward to participate and help Israel in UNITY, YA BABY!
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Joseph Agius
9:58 am
Jan 21, 2011
Thank you for your new website. Also for you passion to reveal the truth. Shabbat Shalom
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Yossef Ytzaack
5:20 pm
Jan 21, 2011
Congratulations for the new website!
It is very nice looking, friendly, and – most important of all – the aproach remains the same. You are doing a very nice job!
Shabat Shalom!
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George Landau
9:28 am
Jan 22, 2011
CONGRATULATIONS! This is a huge improvement–almost a quantum leap!
Wishing you lots of success and many new member/readers as a result of this new design.
Best Regards,
George Landau, Tiburon, California
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Michael Dar
11:41 am
Jan 22, 2011
Welcome facelifting! But still a gigantic work, never ending struggle lays ahead. Once again we Jews are facing with existential threats and not only for Israel. “The whole world against us” was not just an empty, alarmist slogan but a factual, hard reality. Initiating a dynamic discussion forum on the site is certainly constructive and might probably contribute to expose historic truths, correct misconceptions and further expose Arab fraudulent narratives which have become widely accepted around the world. I am convinced, on rock-solid grounds that the Jews and Israel by extension have the historic, moral, spiritual and indeed legal rights on the land of Israel, on the whole of what some by ignorance or by deceit call Palestine. Nobody else in the world can present better, more complete, unequivocal claims on the land and certainely not those who for convenient but fraudulent political reason call themselves nowedays the Palestinians. Keep up the good work!
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Ben Gruberg
5:56 pm
Jan 24, 2011
Sorry to say that I am THOROUGHLY UNHAPPY with the design/layout of your new website!
I much preferred it when there was substantially more information on your email and you only had to click through for additional info. Now there is relatively “nothing” to read on the initial email and I never seem to have the time to click on the links; at least before I could always read the pertinent info. So I’m one (perhaps a lonely one) vote AGAINST your new site, although I imagine that there may well be others (Myron Lerner above appears to hold a similar opinion) who are also too busy to wade through all the links.
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Moshe Flam
6:04 pm
Jan 24, 2011
I don’t like the logo or the theme. To me it looks evil. (sorry, but that’s what a black eye and black and gray background do to me). Find a better one please. Something depicting facts, investigation, depth, something showing that you are about media, something with colors of nature (sky blue, tree green) with a more “positive” air.
Hear hear to Ben Gruberg about having more text and facts on the front page. We still know how to read…
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Robert Skole
6:48 pm
Jan 24, 2011
Site is too busy. Readers are required to click back and forth. The type face size is OK, but it badly needs contrast. Text is far too light gray. Older eyes have trouble reading it. Make it black on white. Page designers should always remember KISS — Keep It Simple, Sweetheart.
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Malka Blumenfeld
6:51 pm
Jan 24, 2011
01/24/2011
The new website looks o.k. but too confusing. At the old one the articles were easier to access and faster to read. Not always is the “new” better. MalkieB
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Norman Abramovitz
8:07 pm
Jan 24, 2011
I sorry to say that I also think the new design is not very good. On a 1280 by 1-024 screen unless I have my browser in full screen mode, I get no clue there is any additional information below the initial highlighted articles. Yes there is a scroll bar, but to attract our attention you do not want us to move our eyes the see the scroll bar. I would completely remove the highlighted article section or make it go vertical verses horizontal.
I agree with the person about emails. You should go back giving us more information in the email messages. You are forgetting that the first time that a person gets that something is new is the email.
When I scroll forward just beyond the highlighted article, the backspin text area just blurs altogether. The formatting needs to be improved to show that there are multiple items there verses one big one. I still did not see the video section until I scroll another screen worth.
You design is somewhat consistent with sites that use wordpress and or joomla, but your site needs to convery information verses collecting information. It is nice that we can add comments, but that is not your major purpose.
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dobberpapa
10:41 pm
Jan 24, 2011
I like the WP-display and better interaction but i have problems to get pressed to have javascript on, i think it excludes people who don’t like the (poor innovative) javascripts and most of all i am dismissing the far more speedy info in email (saving a lot of time) i really would find sense in avoiding pushing people online if not urgent.. keep that free choice in the KISS mind!
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Ike Semaya
5:39 pm
Jan 26, 2011
What was not addressed by the commentators is that the commandos were armed only with side arms. In any other situation of this nature in any part of the world the commandos would have been armed with automatic weapons not just side arms and stun guns.
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cba
7:46 pm
Jan 31, 2011
Currently I’m finding the website rather busy, although I might get used to that. The font and general “look” are very pleasant.
My main complaint at the moment is that every single thing I click opens in a new browser window. This is not “standard” website behaviour. If most of your other readers like it, then ignore this comment–I just find that I end up with far too many windows open.
P.S. I’d like a “preview” function, to reduce the number of typos and formatting errors I make(usually forgetting to close HTML tags).
P.P.S. I’ve just realised that the black band at the bottom of the screen (with the white type) is part of the site and not simply advertising. You might want to change the look of that.
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