Dear Readers,

Kindly bear with us as we complete the installation of the new website. We will be fully functional in a short while. Thank you for your patience. In the meantime here is a guide to the workings of the new website. It is very different from the old website that much is true, but it also works much better and has more scope for growth. Here are a few pointers. 

Front Page, New Articles and New Blogs

All the new editor-sanctioned content will be displayed on the front page, i.e. on this page. You do not need to go anywhere else to find it.  When a new article is posted it will appear either under the Editors' Picks tab above, or underneath the tabs section here on the front page. Up to sixteen articles can now be displayed on the front page.  So if you are looking for new content, you will find it right here on the front page. In contrast, new blogs or diaries will be displayed on the blogs front page. This content is entirely user-generated and is presented undelayed and unedited. Any registered user can start a blog, upload a video or join the gallery . The gallery is specially set up as a platform for Kenyan artists and photographers to display their work, in the way others do with their writing.

The content under the other tabs is a snapshot, an aggregation of what the latest news is under those content categories. For example, we will publish a snapshot of the day's events in politics under the Politics Today tab and global events will be published under the World Today tab. Content is only on the front page temporarily, a few days after it is published there it will be moved to its topical homepage, e.g. Politics, Culture, etc from where users can continue to access it. 

Sections

This same principle is repeated in all the sections, Politics, Economy, Money, Society, Culture, Traveler and Technology and Science. The new content is displayed on the front page of the particular section. It is split into categories and the newest content from these categories is displayed under the tabs which can be found under the section's slideshow. These slideshows are also a snapshot of what is new in each section.

Comments, New Articles, New Diaries 

The last 10 comments will be displayed on the first tab to the bottom right of the home page.  These are comments from all the sections of the website including blogs and front-page articles. The next tab will display the 20 newest articles, and the next one will show the ten latest blogs or diaries. Remember the difference is that blogs are unedited and can be sent up as soon as the author publishes them. Every registered user can set up his own and submit his own blogs. If you find you cannot navigate this, please write the editors we will be happy to help.

Contacting Us,  Submitting work

The top group of tabs on the front page displays first of all a login/ register button. The next one displays a button with email addresses you can use to contact us, and the third has a link which users who are signed in can use to Submit Content for publication on the front page, i.e. in the main magazine. Remember if you would like to submit to your own blog, you should instead use the Diaries and Blogs link on the Home Menu at the top right hand side of this page, and then on Manage Blog in the subsequent page.