The Crossing

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Melissa Worden

I’ve had my eye on The Crossing, by RockyMountainNews.com, for, well, 19 chapters now.

This is gorgeous. The interactive pieces transition so nicely. Chris Schneider’s photos are beautiful. As are Tim Skillern and Laressa Bachelor’s high-quality videos; so moving some made me cry (the family and archive news footage help make these pieces successful).

I especially like how the Flash interactive is integrated at the top of the page.

While the extra info isn’t directly integrated into the text, they’ve come the closest I’ve seen to bringing all the content together and allowing the reader multiple entry points to all of the pieces.

They’ve also listed the whole team, with contact info, on all the pages. Interesting Web titles here:

* Reporter: Kevin Vaughan
* Photographer: Chris Schneider
* Video: Tim Skillern & Laressa Bachelor
* Page designer: Armando Arrieta
* Web designer: Ken Harper
* Web producer: Forrest Stewart
* Web developer: Chris Nguyen
* Copy editor: Dianne Rose
* Photo editor: Dean Krakel
* Imager: Marie Griffin
* Interactive editor: Mike Noe
* Project editor: Carol Hanner

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One Response to “The Crossing”

Patrick Beeson on February 14th, 2007 10:31 am

I think of the best things about this package that not many people will fully realize is that it works without Flash (or JavaScript) enabled.

This means that folks with certain disabilities and search engine robots (I know it’s bad to put those audiences in the same sentence) can navigate through most of the content.

I haven’t seen many newspapers adopt the unobstrusive concept. Perhaps it’s a growing trend?

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