It’s been nine months since our massive overhaul of the indieWIRE website. iW is on a whole new publishing platform that allows us tremendous flexibility and numerous opportunities.
Over the summer we started to explore how we might enhance the new site and developed a few ideas based on feedback we’ve been hearing from our readers and the community. We concluded the process last week and today unveiled the enhanced look.
The new streamlined home page offers a few key changes:
ABOVE THE FOLD: A cleaner module for navigating new stories. It will change frequently to offer highlights of the latest from indieWIRE.
TOH: A new front page “home” for Anne Thompson’s Thompson On Hollywood blog, with links to the latest coverage.
QUICKLINKS: A more prominent section for a one click link to popular, active sections of indieWIRE.
AWARDS: As we enter into the busy awards season, we’ve launched a whole new section for our coverage that will continue through Oscar night in March ‘10. The new area also includes a feed for awards blogs and a separate poll for awards season.
SPOTLIGHT: A quick link to a popular recent article from indieWIRE or from anywhere on the Internet.
RELEASE CALENDAR: indieWIRE’s growing weekly calendar features new films on DVD and in theaters. We invite readers to visit film pages for more info and to grade individual movies.
BLOGS: Linked from the front page, below a section for our more popular blogs, our active feed featuring the latest links to hosted and favorite blogs and websites is featured on the indieWIRE Blogs page, with a headline and highlight from the various sites.
Thanks for checking it out and, as always, we appreciate your input and feedback!
A few shots from Friday’s Indie Film Summit. More at indieWIRE.
photos by eugene hernandez
In a column about “Taking Woodstock” today, Brian Brooks (pictured here in Cannes) reminisces about loving and hating hippies:
“‘My son is a flower child’, my mother told my fellow middle schoolers to my complete and utter horror. She went on to explain to my upper middle-class friends how she and my dad used to send me off to pre-school wearing flower-patterned shirts, plaid bell bottoms and moccasins and a bead necklace. Great! thanks Mom… Why don’t you just light up a joint and dig out that Iron Butterfly album while you’re at it.” The full column is at indieWIRE.
photo by eugene hernandez
Over at iW today, pondering the first 12 weeks of the new indieWIRE site.
Out of Brian’s Film Fest 101 piece, we launched the first indieWIRE poll, asking indieWIRE readers to name the best U.S. festival, from a short list. Here are the final results:
Which U.S. Film Festival is the “Best?”
26.5%: Sundance
26.5%: SXSW
20.5%: Other
18.9%: Telluride
7.6%: Tribeca
For what it’s worth, I voted for Telluride. You?
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