Posted by Andres Alexander on June 24th, 2009
JamaicaObserver.com a few months ago changed the design of their website much to us and all their readers elation. The previous site was over give years old and well, sucked. Since they’ve made the change, their website traffic has gone up more than 50%, which oughta be the case, everyone likes a pretty and functional news website. And it wasn’t done by no large local or American firm, instead it was a designer, a programmer and an inside guy who did it and that must be commended.
However having said that, I recently went to popstylejamaica.com the leading Jamaican fashion blog run by Tesi Johnson and I was like, hold up ahmm this site design looks familiar. So I opened two separate windows, one at jamaicaobserver.com and the other at popstylejamaica.com and then it hit me, they are template twins. You have a look at that pic and tell me.
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Posted by Andres Alexander on November 24th, 2008
The new look comes with additional multi-lingual functionality as well as updated family filters and an integrated forum. While the version one videos were migrated under a system user with the upgrade, the users from version one were apparently not migrated forcing users to re-register or in my case, update my bugmenot plug-in. The site seems to have gained traction with over 300 users having reregistered since re-launch.
WestIndianTube is also now offering the pre-roll ads that have become an industry standard in monetizing niche video sites. Time will tell if the Caribbean Youtube is successful at scaling in its niche.
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