Clearfield– GANT Media, LLC, the publisher of gantnews.com has announced the upcoming launch of their new site design, GANT v2.
Coming in January 2008 gantnews.com will have a new look and additional features designed to improve usability.
V2 (version 2) will help visitors of gantnews.com access news and information more quickly and easily. Visitors to the site will find the list of main content channel has moved to the top and a new site search and article archive systems will be implemented and powered by Google.
Visitors will also find more interactive features, partner links and new Marketplace options.
“It’s exciting,” said Aaron Evans, editor of GantDaily. “We are continually evolving, looking for new ways to bring the best services to our readers and advertisers.”
The new site designed by Aaron Rothrock, former lead developer at Harmony Multimedia, is the first phase of an ongoing project aimed at improving and updating the site’s performance. In coming months, additional enhancements will be introduced in terms of content and technology delivery systems.
“V2 is just the beginning,” said Christene Dahlem, President of GANT Media. “We’re building on our expertise to deliver the best news media platform across the region.”
To help promote the v2 new site design GantDaily has partnered with clearlyahead.com, the region’s portal to service and opportunities through the Clearfield County Economic Development Corporation, to enlist new members to the v2 site.
“We are pleased and honored to partner with Gantdaily for the launch of v2. Gantdaily has been a wonderful media outlet for our clearlyahead.com website. We have been a supporter of Gantdaily since their inception and are pleased with the local and national exposure Gantdaily has been able to provide to local businesses, including our operation. We are confident v2 will continue to make Gantdaily a leader in local internet news by providing its clients and readers with increased media coverage and commerce as a result of enhanced local, national and international exposure,” said Rob Swales, Executive Director for the CCEDC.
The CCEDC has been closely involved with many of the economic development projects that have occurred in Clearfield County. In recent years, the CCEDC has worked with multiple biofuels and alternative energy projects, BioEnergy International LLC, Swan Biomass,Sunnyside Ethanol LLC and RiverHill Power. The CCEDC also recently announced the opening of the Clearfield County Alliance Park, formerly the home of FCI for manufacturing and technology-base businesses.
GantDaily.com currently averages more than 7 million page views each month and delivers news via breaking news email alerts, rss news feeds and sms text (direct to cell phone) alerts.
In addition to local partner sites, Gant Daily’s local news feeds are carried by topix.net, cnn.com, Ask.com, and MyYahoo.com, as well as many other national news group sites.
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For more information on clearlyahead.com click here.