The web is ever-changing. Why should Kansan.com be any different? One of the great things about my job as the Kansan's Web Director is that I have at my disposal the tools to make our web edition better and better. But it is a gift, and a curse. A major hurdle for me is coming up with more ideas of how to improve.

As I talked about in my last post, Kansan.com has gotten some great upgrades to it's features and content. I've fulfilled a few of my goals for the semester, and have even more down the road. But now I want to turn to the readers. What do you think would improve our online edition? User polls? More video content? You tell me.

Many people have said that Kansan.com need more original content. It shouldn't be just a carbon copy of the print edition. That is starting to come true this semester, with the addition of video content (like the Video Free For All), podcasts from our staff and the great radio personalities over at KJHK (if you haven't checked them out, you should), and more user interaction through comments.

But that is only the first step. I want Kansan.com to become more than just a the Kansan's print edition online. I want it to become a forum for student interaction. Now you can give me ideas of what you would like to see added. So leave comments on this post, or send ideas to me via email.

So as many of you may have noticed, Kansan.com got a major facelift about a week ago. I spent the last semester researching how people use the website, what sections they read the most, and what kinds of information they prefer to see. This all comes together with several new features that are now launched or will be along the way very soon.

Blogs are a big thing in today's Internet. People use them to illustrate opinions and ideas on almost any conceivable topic from the comfort of their desk. The Kansan staff is no exception. We have several blogs ...

Like the headline says, RSS feeds are back. Well, they were never really gone - but the page that lists them was lost. So it's really that page that's back. Anyway...

Check out http://www.kansan.com/rss/ for a listing of our main RSS feeds.

For those of you who don't know what RSS feeds are, here's my brief explanation:

Feed reader programs either live on your computer, or online through a service like Google Reader allow you to enter in feed URLs to collect stories from all the sites you visit in one convenient place. Whenever Kansan.com updates, these feeds are ...

First of all, I'd like to send, my condolences and best wishes to the students, faculty, and extended family at Virginia Tech University. I cannot imagine the pain the campus must be collectively going through right now.

While news organizations like CNN have done a thorough job in covering Monday's events, I'd like to point the readers of kansan.com to Virginia Tech's student newspaper, the Collegiate Times. After overcoming early technical difficulty when the news initially broke, they've done what I feel is an admirable job as the student voice of the Virginia Tech community.

In the process of ...

Did you miss us? We certainly missed you for the last six days. Six days without KU's student voice being heard online is six days too many! Lots has happened around KU and Lawrence in this time span, and it's all chronicled in stories posted kansan.com (published originally in our print issues).

Stories from before last week will prove a bit harder to find. Here's why:

While the staff at the Kansan publishes kansan.com every day, creating stories, taking photos, doing design work, etc, the files that make kansan.com tick live on a server at the Lawrence Journal-World. The Journal-World ...