Serving the reader

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Melissa Worden

Full disclosure: This is sort-of-but-not-really tooting my own horn. I had nothing to do with this project, but it comes out of HeraldTribune.com.

Database power team Maurice Tamman and Charlie Szymanski (they created IbisEye.com) have put together a tax calculator to help residents figure out how proposed Florida property tax changes would mean to them.

Taxes are confusing to begin with, but this proposal by state lawmakers makes you choose between a new super homestead plan and the current Save our Homes plan.

Tamman and Szymanski turned this tool around in a day, too, to accompany ongoing print stories. So it’s timely, interactive, and a real service to readers.