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Carlow People / Carlow Nationalist websites

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  • 10-04-2009 4:34pm
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    wheres me jumpa
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    www.carlow-nationalist.ie
    www.carlowpeople.ie

    Two usable news websites for the area now and it's about time.How many of us use these? The Nationalist website was in desperate need of a revamp. It seemed to display a tiny fraction of the actual news each week. And very often stories were just merged into one page. Im not sure if carlowpeople.ie is a new site or redesign but it was certainly the first of the two to be of use.
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    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    use the nationalist website, regularly, especially aborad, when i want to keep abrest of current local issuses, so when i get home it doesnt take 2 or 3 days to catch up with what every one is talking about, seems everytime i go away something major happens.

    new website looks great, the old one was just simple html and looked it. new one is pwetty.


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    #3
    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Both sites are including more images now. Although the carlow people images tend to be small and poor quality.


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    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    yea, noticed that, we are talking old phone camera quality, like i have an old 2mp camera, like g1 digital, and they are better then most of their pics.


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    Tom10
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    Is carlow really big enough to have 2 local papers???


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    #6
    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Well the carlow people was last on the scene and has been around for 10 years (?) now. So clearly there is a demand for it.


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    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    there was also a local mag a few years ago. carlows own, any one remember that?


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    stick-dan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭stick-dan


    As i live in waterford now mostly except for the odd weekend i use these quiet frequently. Both of them are far from perfect if you ask me but i'm not looking at them to be awed, i'm looking for the news so i don't really mind compensating the lack of visual flair as long as the basic information is there.


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    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    but i see that there was some problem with links around the page for the nationalist before they updated, was well over due.


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    #10
    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    aynon wrote: »
    there was also a local mag a few years ago. carlows own, any one remember that?

    Yep. It seemed to cover stories that were missed by the larger papers.


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    shotgun mike
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭shotgun mike


    as a person who used to update the nationalist website, I think people are forgetting that its free, and apart from a pitance in online advertising, the nationalist made (and makes) no money from it. It was a basic design, but at least gratis.....


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