It took more than four months of designing, back-end finagling and a whole lot of coffee to bring you this revamped web presence.

Well, here it is! What do you think?

More than a new look, the westerngazette.ca offers you more interactivity than our old site. A robust commenting system (just look to your right…) lets readers speak their minds about stories and issues, engage in dialogue and build an active readership.

You’ll also notice two brand new ventures for the Gazette: blogs and video. Our blogs will be fun and interesting perspectives on whatever our writers feel like talking about. Coming soon are fashion blogs, music blogs and sports blogs, so check back often. Perhaps the most interesting piece of our new online presence will be videos! Everything from interviews with important folks to concert footage will be fair game. We also promise to make them short and infotaining (entertaining + informative!).

The Gazette is also making its first foray into the social media world, with three (count ‘em, three) Twitter accounts (for A&E, Sports and plain old News) and a new Facebook page. This should give you more avenues to find information relevant to your life as a Western student and London resident. Sound like fun?

This also offers a lot of opportunity to work at the Gazette. Anyone interested in making videos, designing graphics, writing stories or blogging should come up to room 263 of the UCC and say hello. We’re very nice. You also get to work on whatever interests you whenever you want. It’s really a lot of fun.