If you’ve been to thecrimsonwhite.com over the past week, you may have noticed something different. After months of work and weeks of fine tuning, The Crimson White is proud to announce the launch of our new website.

The redesign is the first step in a new direction The Crimson White is taking over the next year. From now on, we will not just be a newspaper. We will be a complete news organization. Our goal isn’t just to create a newspaper four days a week. It’s to provide you, our readers, with the information you need, whenever and wherever you want it.

Our new website was designed from the ground up to be easier to use, better organized and more focused. With the new topics tab, you can find the stories that you care about and keep track of how they develop over time. Our new navigation bar makes it easier than ever to search the website and find what interests you.

We changed the format of our articles to make them easier to read and more useful for our audience. You can now share articles over social media with a single click and find related articles at the bottom of the page.

Our redesign also comes with a mobile ?platform, so you can keep up with what’s going on in your community, whether you’re on a laptop or smartphone.

Under the hood, we’ve streamlined our entire news sharing process so that you’ll know what’s happening as soon as?we do.

As we continue to make changes to our ?organization, we will also continue to make changes to the website, always with an eye toward ?creating a better ?experience for ?our readers.

This is not simply a change in the way our website looks. This is the jumping-off point for a ?complete shift in our approach. We can now present information online in ways that would be impossible in print. With that in mind, we will begin rolling out online-only content in the fall, both to complement our print edition and to become a true 24/7 ?news organization.

We don’t just want to be a good source for news about Tuscaloosa and The University of Alabama. We want to be the only source you need.

We hope you like the new website. We made it for you.

Our View is the consensus of The Crimson ?White editorial board.