Welcome to the new Courier website

Thank you for visiting the new Courier site.

We hope you like our updated look and the new features we will be able to offer now and in the future.

Since we launched the previous site in mid-2010, we have been pleased to see increasing numbers of people visiting to catch up on Courier stories and to share their views on the issues of the day.

With a new commenting system now in place, we hope you will find it easier than ever to get involved in debate — subject, as always, to our house rules.

As well as improving the community features, we hope our new site will:

perform better across devices, including on your mobile or smartphone
provide more news as it happens — and tell you how our newspaper will be analysing it in your next morning edition
broaden our range of subjects, but always with a main focus on local news and sport

We still have many things we want to improve, and we hope you will help us by exploring the site and letting us know what we could do better.

We hope you find the site is easy to use, but we realise changes can take some getting used to. If you have any problems you can leave comments at the bottom of this article or email the online editor at online@thecourier.co.uk.

BigK	4 months ago

Old site was easier for auls fowk like me. I cannot comment on today's letters (I bought a paper) because they are not showing on the site. Naughty naughty.

Abergele

8 months ago

I like, much.

Lower Leagues

9 months ago

The supporters of the local 2nd & 3rd Division football clubs make up a fair prportion of Courier Readers so why has a specific area of news for these divisions and clubs been dropped??

stushie

I preferred the old LevenMail inPRINT.BUT ,I'mold fashioned!

Al G	10 months ago

I don't think this is a significant improvement. Yes, it's undoubtedly better but I also find it difficult to navigate. Too much white background. On opening the home page, I find that the main picture jumps out & makes me relate the news article immediately to the right with the picture. The headline sitting below the picture is off my screen (screen resolution?). It needs to be easier to find old articles & local news needs to be grouped more obviously. Although there are many comments here & some responses from DC Thomson, has any of the constructive criticism been implemented?

Laura Findlay

10 months ago

I really find this new site difficult to navigate. I tried it not long after it started and didn't like it then but I thought I would try it again today and still find it frustrating. I agree with Brenda - used to feel tempted after reading online, then go and buy it and now I don't.

nogginthenog

11 months ago

Too much white space, and the headline font is crude.

Minty

I prefer to read the old comments first, makes more sense of comments that follow. Would it be possible to be given the option of reading old comments first, like "The Scotsman" does?

william d

Excellent.....well done Ellis!

parrot

approx half of the home page is made up of adverts and the courier banner; having to scroll down to see the first few headlines is daft. Look at the BBC News site for decent layout of key headlines and navigation for regional news. I accept you need to provide ad space but this is excessive.

colin

Sorry won't be buying a subscription or a hard copy courier until DC Thompson drops their blatent support of Unionism in favour of fair and ballanced reporting of the refurendum.

Graham Galloway

12 months ago

The new font is horrible, it looks like its been set to too low a resolution. The banner ads down the side are very distracting too.

@Taypolfedsec

2 parts to this, the website and the digital edition. Website- Well done a clean new design look- big improvement. What goes on and when is always a commercial challenge for newspapers but I'm not sure hybrid solutions of partial publishing are useful to anyone. Might be worth trialling putting all content on the website (without a delay).Not sure how much web publishing would actually shift readers from actual paper sales. I suspect it wouldn't be significant as many web readers like me don't/can't/wouldn't buy the print version at all. Advertising revenues to a wider audience may offset. The digital subscription version had to happen but I remain to be convinced about reading full versions on computers/tablets. A bit like running steam trains on a super fast rail network-constraining digital media's capability to emulate papers limitations! In summary, a big improvement on what you had but there are opportunities here to really lead in digital media strategy. Be brave!

brenda

Failure as far as I am concerned have given it a few tries and agree with others stories are old stay up forever and there is less news . Either give a free online copy or dont . Used to read it before going to work would then buy the real thing to read but looking at the news in it makes me think there will be nothing worthwhile to read so wont bother now . Plenty of other better news sites

Ricky

More than 1 year ago

After looking at the new site for a couple weeks, I've realised there are FEWER stories published online ( for free) than the old site. The older stories also just stay up for days on end to pad things out. I realise you want people to subscribe, but your new free online version in merely a pretty face and nothing BUT knickers. I'll just read someone else copy at work.

Dubai Dundonian

First impression? A huge improvement. Bit late though, I've subscibed PressDisplay.com for almost a year now, to get the full daily edition so I'm very seldom visit this site.

seoras

Don't like it as much as the old. It's too "busy" and too many things coming at you at once. I find that instead of coming to the site every day I'm only coming to check it out once a week now. Probably less in the future :-(

latetully

Hmmm, no one like change but very slowly getting used to it. Don't like these audible adverts that play whether you click on them or not though! That's more likely to make me find my news elsewhere!

Billp

Good once i got used to it , but what happened to the 3J's?

Checkley

I found the previous version much easier to navigate. I usually check the Courier each morning and spend some time looking at the new stories, however, I now find that I run out of patience trying to navigate so give up halfway through. No doubt I'll get used to it. It's still an amazing tool and all credit to the web developers.

Ian Gilman

Why is there such a delay on the letters page? It's late morning, Monday, but the letters are still at Saturday.

Richard Rooney

If you want access to any content before it reaches our website, you are very welcome to try our digital edition: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/digitaleditions.aspx?tab=0&pid=d252195f-af1f-4607-b1e5-91af263c0f50

laurie53

Like it overall, but the digital subscription subscription facility needs to be improved. I ordered, and have been charged for, a digital edition some days ago and I;m still waiting to find it on my computer, and if I ever do it will be well out of date. An e-mail to the link given above did not even get the courtesy of an automated acknowledgement, and there has been a deafening silence frim D C Thomson. One expects teething problems, but one also expects a facility to report them.

Laurie, can you go to http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/digitaleditions.aspx?tab=0&pid=d252195f-af1f-4607-b1e5-91af263c0f50 and select your edition (either Dundee at the top, or Angus, Fife or Perth along the bottom. You should then be able to log in with your details and see your edition. It doesn't download to your computer unless you choose that in the options area while browsing it on screen.

Thank you for the response, Richard. I have been in e-mail correspondence with Pagesuite for a couple of days. Although they confirm I have a live subscription, it doesn't appear in my list of subscriptions. Laurie Richards

Update - I have now received a personal response from Richard, and the matter is being dealt with elsewhere.

drookit

Much better than the old one (though please don`t follow the Guardian with nesting of comments!). Hope the evening telegraph one follows suit with improvements. Pleased to see that comments are published as soon as they are written, rather than the hours (or whole weekend) it took on the old site.

Harry

Cant find items which are advertised for sale anywhere?

webbie

Nope I`m out !!!! Find it difficult to read I prefer old one and also agree with PP

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