New Herald blogger: Chelsea Kellner

Our new education reporter, Chelsea Kellner, has joined the growing list of Herald bloggers with her site, located here. The site is in its infant stage, but Chelsea said she’ll update it with school-related news and whatever else comes to her mind. I suggested she write about being a Yankee in North Carolina … so we’ll see.
Hopefully, she’ll update it more than our other two reporters, Jon and Gordon.

Redesign: Nearly a month

Boy, time flies.
On Aug. 21, The Herald launched its redesign, an effort that was about four months in the making … yet something we still weren’t 100 percent ready for. But I learned from a very good editor once that you’re NEVER as ready as you want to be. If you’re comfortable with it, go with it, and you can improve it along the way.
We’ve been working on improving the redesign each day, and there are still some kinks. Some of the mistakes are errors on our part (we can’t seem to find a home for the sudoku answers, can we?), while others have to do with new software (you’ll see the occasional photo missing a frame or a line appears out of nowhere).
But overall, I’m very happy with where we’re at, and our readers have been in favor of the changes by at least a 4-1 margin.
We will continue to work on the new product, and I appreciate our readers’ patience along the way. You’ll notice in Saturday’s paper we’ve tweaked the front page rail to get more into it, and our sports rail will include local high school standings. Little things, but things that help our paper nonetheless.
Below is some of my favorite front pages we’ve done since the redesign, designed by myself and News Editor Kevin Degon with photos from photographer Brooke Wolfe.
If you have suggestions or comments, please feel free to leave them on here or e-mail me.