The redesign you see here is just the most visible part of a wide-ranging overhaul of Wired News. As of today, we've switched over to a new open-source publishing tool, based on Apache Lenya, built by our engineers over the past few months.
This is the first in a series of changes that we hope will improve your experience. New features are in the pipeline and will begin showing up soon.
At first glance, you may wonder what's happened to some of your favorite features on the old site. In fact, we've kept most everything -- it's just in new places.
Most obviously, we've removed the left-hand column that once housed Quote Marks, links to topic areas and our stock-quote tool.
Topic areas are now found in the navigation bar that appears just below the Wired News logo at the top of the page. Topics appear as keywords in the horizontal black bar that connects to nav bar when you click on the Technology, Culture, Politics and News Wires tabs.
Quote Marks and the stock-quote tool have been retired.
In the new left-hand column, you'll see news headlines. We've added publishing dates to all our stories so you can see at a glance what's new. Because all of our stories now carry time stamps, we have removed the In Case You Missed It section.
Elsewhere is now a blog. You can find it by going to the Blogs tab in the navigation bar.
Furthermore is also now a blog, and can be found in the Wired Blogs section along with eight other blogs produced by writers from Wired News and Wired magazine: Gear Factor, Autopia, The Cult of Mac, Game|Life, Sex Drive Daily, Monkey Bites, Beyond the Beyond and Bodyhack. RSS your favorites to have them delivered automatically to your newsreader, and check back here from time to time as we expand our offerings and bring on new writers.
In the navigation bar you'll also see a new tab marked Columns. This takes you to our commentary page, with archives of our regularly featured columnists, including Tony Long, Bruce Schneier, Clive Thompson and Regina Lynn.
If you're interested in general news, go to our News Wires tab. This is where you'll find real-time feeds from the Associated Press and Reuters. To go to a specific subject, such as politics, sports, science or photo galleries, click on the keyword displayed in the black bar below the navigation tool.
In the coming weeks and months, we plan to add many new features to the site that we believe will make Wired News even more relevant, fun and thought-provoking than it is now.
If there's something you're dying to see us try -- or something you want us to stop -- let us know. I can't guarantee we'll act on your suggestions. But we'll read them and give them respectful consideration.
Having lived through website redesigns before, I know this process is bound to generate a lot of discussion. I welcome your remarks.
-- Evan Hansen
Editor in chief, Wired News
