Some of you know me, some of you don't. I'm that guy who blogs (well, more like used to blog) at The Beirut Spring. But even if we've never met, we probably have something in common: We read the Daily Star, lebanon's only English-language daily.
Now between you and me and the whole world: Isn't their website quite the eyesore?
I live abroad. I don't have access to the printed edition. All I have is the website, and man reading that thing makes me feel like my eyes have been wearing tight shoes all day.
So I figured I'll try to do something about it. I have a background in web design and I dabbled a bit in journalism. I'm very motivated, so i was like screw it: i'm doing this.
But what started as a little thing on the side began turning into a big thing. I found out that The Daily Star has excellent journalists and wonderful pieces. They're just buried under piles and piles of rubbish, which is another way of saying broken links, adsense jungles, expired sections, in-your-face bells-and-whistles that do nothing at all. Listen to my articles read by a robot? Really Daily Star? Really?
Anyway, this is the blog where I'll tell you how everything unfolds in this project, so please stay tuned.
For all questions and inquiries, please email me to beirutspring at gmail d0t com
Mustapha,
ReplyDeleteDo you have an idea about the number of original daily hits that the DS gets?
I am wondering whether it is worth saving?
Yeah, that too..
ReplyDeleteat times I feel that i'm designing a suit for a corpse.
It's so sad to see them go down with a whimper , but hey, at least we're doing something..
wow! Thank you for this template... yeah it's a nice blog.. web development
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