Buying the Sam Bradford flip
We received this question today:
Forgive me for being untechnical. Howsomever, can you tell me where to go on your site to find the ‘Bradford flip’ photographic series? I would like to purchase at least one of them and would like to see what is available. Beaucoups thanks.
I had a similar question last month, and the answer is the same, but I’ll provide a bit more detail this time.
You can purchase a “piece of history” when you buy a re-print of The Oklahoman’s front page of the sports section. It just so happens that we had four images of the flip – shot by photographer Chris Landsberger – on that cover.
I purchased one for my 8-year-old for Christmas. It is now framed and hanging in his room. (It’s always fun when your growing son has his first sports hero).
Bottom line: That re-print cover can be a big hit.
The reason we offer re-prints is in the fine print of the press credentials we get each year. We can’t sell the images from the NCAA game action as individual photos. We are, however, legally allowed to sell images of The Oklahoman’s pages.
My site loads faster now!
The most consistent comment we’ve heard from the public is that our new Web site is cleaner and easier to navigate. We’re happy to hear that, because that was the ultimate goal of the resedign.
Another consistent comment we’ve heard is about the load time of the site.
Indeed, the site does load faster than our previous version. That is happening because the programming staff and designing staff spent weeks cleaning up and improving code under the covers to make your computer load our site faster. They also configured the servers and placed images on new servers to improve the load time of the site.
I’m no expert on that stuff, but I know when my favorite Web site works well – and this one does. It’s just another example of the development team making things happen behind the scenes to help our news and information shine.
Blog page
We’ve heard from people wondering where our main page for the blogs have gone. We are working on that. We knew we were launching without that page; the design for that page is still being finalized. However, each of our active blogs is still available through the various sections of the site that they relate to – and most can be found through our Voices page.
We get lots of of traffic on our blogs. Traffic for our blogs has tripled in the past few months, but we haven’t seen a great increase on the main blogs page. Our conclusion: people are getting to our blogs from many different areas of the Web, but not necessarily the main blogs page, so we made it a secondary priority for launch.
We will get that page up soon. Stay tuned.
