The Volante adapts mobile-first mindset

The Volante is changing its mindset: This semester we’ve embraced a cleaner, mobile-first way of thinking.

We’re not just focusing on the print edition anymore — we’re bringing the news to you as it happens, through our website.

In order to do that, we needed to change our website design with the help of experts like Clear Digital to make it better for college students. Not only is it more visually appealing, it’s responsive to your mobile devices, something our old site could not do.

This is the way the newspaper industry is moving across the country — in college newsrooms and professionally. It’s not good enough just to get out a print edition once a day or once a week.

Journalism is about telling a story in the best way possible, and in this day that means through photos, videos and sound bites that are all online first.

People spend about seven hours a day consuming media, and 1.8 of those hours are on their mobile devices, according to an article published by Digital Buzz Blog.

By adapting to the change, we get the news to our readers faster, making it more convenient, visually appealing and interesting to you.

Now this certainly doesn’t mean we’re getting rid of the print edition. It’s still a valuable product to us, and something all of us at The Volante take a lot of pride in. We’re simply pushing ourselves to get you the news faster.

We would love to hear your feedback, and you can do so by tweeting with #NewVolante.