Last updated Dec 11 1997
As per reader's request, we will update this page to let you know
about any changes made to this web site. Most changes are made as per
reader's email requests - things done to make your reading of THE
HINDU Online easy and fun. As you can see we are listening to the
feedback. Thank you for your feedback, you are helping us determine what
these pages should look like.
Dec 10, 97 : The Hindu Online web site has been selected 'Best of the Web' by
SelectSurf ( http://www.selectsurf.com )
SelectSurf which features only the best sites on the internet has selected
THE HINDU ONLINE site for inclusion in their guide.
This recognition is given only to top sites meeting SelectSurf's criteria for
content, usefulness, presentation, ease of use, and originality. Only the very
best sites carry the distinction of being included in SelectSurf.
Oct 16, 97 : The Hindu Online web site has been named Best of the Web in the News Channel by the editors of Snap! Online. (http://www.snap.com)
Snap! editors choose Best of the Web (BoW) from the thousands of offerings in a
given channel. These are the sites that we tell our friends about and bookmark for return visits. BoW is a designation given to sites that are:
- * Nicely packaged: well-designed, effective to navigate and appropriate to the s
ubject matter in presentation;
- * Dependable: well-written, accurate and copyedited;
- * Visually exciting: utilizing the best Web technology and design to effectivel
y present material;
- * Packed: delivering more than enough information of interest to the end user and/or links to excellent resources.
March 12, 97 : Letters to the Editor now available on popular
demand
The Letters to the Editor are now available under the
Opinion section each day - and can also be submitted online via our new feedback form. We look forward to submissions from our online
readers.
March 12, 97 : New feedback form with categories
Check our new feedback form with categories to
direct your feedback to the correct departments. Use it to submit
letters to the editor, advertisement or subscription queries, general
comments on the content or the web site.
March 10, 97 : Site map page has been redone
The SIteMap page now contains details of the various sections and services of THE HINDU ONLINE. Check it out
Feb 27, 97 : SEARCH on Archives of the weekly issues from June 95
to August 96 is now FREE
Search on our popular old weekly issues
is now free (no longer requires the CyberCoin Wallet). Check out that
old article you missed or want to read over again. Search is available
via sections and works just like our regular search on the daily
issue. Check it out
Feb 10 97 : THE HINDU ONLINE site is Luckman Interactive's 5 star winner! - to be featured on Luckman's World Wide Yellow Pages CD-ROM and book.
To quote them,
Congratulations! It's not every day that stars fall out of the sky. In fact,
that kind of thing is bound to hurt someone. Nonetheless, we're dropping a
few stars on your site for its excellence. Of the more than 150,000 Web
sites that we've checked out, our editors believe that your site* should be
publicly recognized as a Luckman Five-Star winner.
In addition to your Five-Star award, a review of your site will be
featured in the new edition of our book and interactive CD-ROM--
Luckman Interactive's "World Wide Web Yellow Pages."
Jan 20 97 : NetGuide has selected THE HINDU ONLINE site as a Gold
Site -- one of the best on the Web.
The Gold Award recognizes Web
sites that meet a stringent criteria for overall excellence. To
learn more about NetGuide, visit it at http://www.netguide.com.
NetGuide has screened over 100,000 URLs and reviewed more than 50,000
sites and the Gold Award goes to only 15,000 of the Web's best sites.
We compare well above several reputed US and other newspapers in
rating, the site got an overall 4 star rating. Design and personality
were given 4 stars and content was given 5 stars!
To quote them
"The Hindu, India's National Newspaper, goes online,
featuring classifieds, live chat rooms, and daily news
briefs. Now a daily edition (as of September 1), India's
premier paper delivers the lowdown on everything
from business, agriculture, and biography to military,
religion, and sports. Whether you are planning a
vacation, keeping up with life back home, watching the
stocks, or looking for a crossword, The Hindu
promises to fulfill nearly everyone's necessities."
Jan 10 97: New Events 1996 directory
Dec 1 ,96: THE HINDU has been chosen by America Online's
International Channel for their News forum.
Find it on AOL by going to
keyword INTERNATIONAL by pressing the control key and K (on the Mac,
apple key + K) simultaneously, and then typing INTERNATIONAL. Next,
select the NEWS button you find at that location.
Nov 1 ,96: THE HINDU ONLINE has been chosen to be included in
Starting Point's "Choice" directory.
To quote them : " As a "Starting
Point Choice" site, The Hindu is listed in the News section since it
provides our visitors exceptional presentation, depth of content, and
value. Your site is in excellent company as only the highest-quality,
best-of-the-best, sites are chosen. "
Sept 26 ,96: Hindu is the world's first newspaper to offer archival search for a nominal fee using CyberCoin(tm)!
See more about our archival search and easy payment method by trying out our
Search on our Archives!
. Read more about CyberCoin and CyberCash here.
Aug 31 ,96: NEW daily edition completes beta testing, it is now officially here!
Thanks to our readers for helping test out our new daily edition, we got a lot of feedback giving us suggestions on content and presentation as well as helping us debug on various browsers/versions. This is the last week of the weekly edition (Aug 25-31 issue is the last issue) and we invite our weekly edition readers to check out and read our new daily edition. Previous issues are available online.
Ofcourse a web site is never ever done, so we will continue to modify, improve the site and we would welcome all your comments and suggestions.
Thanks for all the positive feedback we have received on our daily site.
Aug 26 ,96: Search added to our NEW Daily edition
Aug 26 ,96: Archives of NEW daily edition available online
Aug 13 ,96: Complete NEW Daily edition is here
For the last 1 year, since we started our weekly online edition, we have received numerous requests for a daily edition, finally it is here. We began testing our new beta edition on Aug 13 and are still collecting feedback from our readers on the content and layout of this new edition. Do check out the new daily edition and give us your feedback.
May 4 ,96: Experimental new service National Stock Exchange
On request from our readers we have begun a daily update of the National Stock Exchange - available at http://www.webpage.com/hindu/nse
April 20 ,96: Smaller, better JPEG images used instead of GIF files
April 9 ,96: Special Daily Supplement on the Indian Elections
On request from readers of THE HINDU Online, we bring an indepth coverage of the Indian Elections. A special online Election supplement will be brought out
daily. This project is still in the beta stage and so some links/pictures may not work, layout may change, but yes the content should be there.
March 30 ,96: New layout (with tables) added for main/weekly
pages
After 1 week of the experimental look and carefully reviewing our
reader's comments, we have decided to go ahead and switch to the new
table look on our main and weekly pages. Text only browsers should
continue to work fine. Do let us know if the pages look wierd on your
browser, and we will attempt to fix it. Our pages work best with
Netscape 2.0 but we attempt to keep them simple enough to accomodate
for the other browsers out there.
Access Stock, Commodity, Mutual Fund, Money Market Fund or Index quotes. Real -time market watch. Several International stock exchange quotes coming soon including the Bombay Stock Exchange.
We are experimenting with a NEW look for our pages ... tell us what you think.
March 16 ,96: Background turned white
As requested by our readers we have turned the background white, to
look more like the real newspaper. Some other layout changes have been
made as per suggestions received. Thank you for your valuable feedback,
keep it coming
March 10 ,96: Daily newsbriefs are now available
Daily newsbriefs can be found at http://www.indiaserver.com/news/thehindu/thehindu.html
March 9 ,96: We have been selected as a Starting Point Choice site 
The Hindu has been selected by Starting Point as a "Starting Point
Choice" Site. To quote Ken Wruk, Starting Point Choice Editor :
"The Hindu was selected because of its exceptional presentation, depth of
content and overall value to Internet users."
You can see THE HINDU listing in the news section at http://www.stpt.com/news.html"
February 25 ,96: The Sunday Crossword is here!
January 27 ,96: Update date moved up again!
The issue Jan 21-27 updated on Jan 27 itself!! THE HINDU and PARALOGIC
CORPORATION will make all attempts to publish THE HINDU Online as soon
as possible.
January 22 ,96: Java Clock added
Readers with Java enabled browsers now get a Local/Indian Std Time
clock on home page. Please send us feedback on whether or not we should keep the
clock. If you are interested you can read the source.
A graphic version of the clock is also available.
January 7 ,96: Images for all stories are now made inline
By popular demand, images in each story are made inline. Readers with
slower browsers, or those who do not wish to see the images, please
turn off images in your browser or hit the 'Stop' button to stop image
loading when page loading takes too long for you - you can then just
read the text.
January 7 ,96: Music, Dance, Drama and Film Reviews now available
Selected Music, Dance, Drama and Film Reviews available in the ARTS
section along with Fine Arts.
Dec 12 ,95: We now welcome advertisers on THE HINDU Online
We are now ready to accept advertising.
Read our updated About Us section for more on THE HINDU Online.
Dec 12 ,95: New search engine installed
Our new and improved search engine passes Beta test.
Oct 30 ,95: Our Newer search engine is ready to Beta Test
We have added a newer and much faster search engine, which allows logical expressions
and prefix word matches. We invite you to help us Beta test our
new search engine .
Oct 10 ,95: Previous issues listing order
Previous issues are now listed in reverse chronological order, (most
recent first) based on a suggestion from one of our readers. Thank
you!
Oct 2 ,95: Update update!
Paralogic Corporation and Hindu are working together to decrease the
time to update each issue. Recent improvements in connectivity to
India will hopefully reduce this time dramatically, stay tuned!
What's New in the Weekly edition Sept 03 - Sept 09
- Weather Report is now available under Generalia.
- Stock exchange index information now available under Business.
We have been selected as one of the Top 5% of all Web sites by Point
What's New in the Weekly edition July 29 - Aug 5
Crossword grid made inline
What's New in the Weekly edition July 23 - 29
- Images reduced in size so that they can be viewed easily. (That crossword should fit on your screen now!)
- Smaller image file sizes to reduce downloading time.
- Images interlaced to take advantage of the 'venetion blind' effect for users of Netscape.
- Links to weekly edition and main menu from each story appear at the top as well as the bottom of the story page so you dont have to scroll back to find the link.
What's New in the Weekly edition June 25-July 1
The CROSSWORD is here!!
What's New in the Weekly edition June 18-June 24
- Keshav's cartoons are here - check them out!
- Links from article pages to weekly edition/main menu
- Simple linear structure for the menu of sections available - got rid of the complex table layout
- Those pink icons are gone!
- Matrimonials. classified, employment sections added
- Image links provided on top of each article
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