Michael: September 2011 Archives

We've been getting some helpful feedback following our first 32 hours live with the new flightglobal.com.

One of the common themes is that visitors to the site miss having a simple list of the latest news stories.

People have been saying that they find this helpful for rapidly catching up on stories that might have been published over several days since they last visited the site.

As mentioned before, Flightglobal Pro subscribers have access to an advanced "My News" section, which allows them to create personlised news streams to fit in with their interests.

We do intend to develop a similar experience for non-Pro people in time, although obviously only displaying non-Pro news content.

However, for the meantime in order to keep news junkies happy, we've quickly knocked up a simple "Latest News" page that lists the latest 210 non-Pro news stories published.

This list would typical cover a two-week period of publishing, so even if you've been away on vacation you should still be able to rapidly catch up on the period you've missed.

And if you need to navigate to the Latest News page in future without coming back to this post, you can find the link on the main News page underneath the "In focus ..." section:

So we're finally live with the new flightglobal.com and with Flightglobal Pro (our paid-for subscriber service).

Thanks for your patience over the last 24 hours or so while we work our way through the inevitable bugs and stability issues that go hand in hand with a code release of this magnitude.

The new site is the culmination of over 12 months of development work, and far longer in terms of planning.

Here's a check list for hot topics at the moment:

• People experiencing bugs should email details to: webmaster@flightglobal.com
  
• People wanting to give general feedback on the new site should email me: Michael.targett@flightglobal.com. However it's probably worth reading this post about some of our changes first.
  
• A few people have contacted me to say that they miss viewing news articles in a simple list format. This experience is still available on Flightglobal but is part of our Flightglobal Pro package. To take a free instant trial of Pro please go here, select which service you'd like to trial and follow the signs to Free Taster
  
• And finally, we've made some changes to our article categorization system so, while we're going through and checking the various news channels, if you spot any oddities (e.g. a military news article appearing in the Airlines channel) email them through to webmaster@flightglobal.com and we'll correct the issue.