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The Student Newspaper of Jackson-Reed High School

The Beacon

The Student Newspaper of Jackson-Reed High School

The Beacon

The Student Newspaper of Jackson-Reed High School

The Beacon

Changelog

Welcome to Wesley’s Corner! You will find updates here for web improvements. Please forward any ideas/issues to hoywesley@gmail.com 🙂

Changelog 9/25/23:

  • Fix wrong information being displayed on the hamburger menu on mobile
  • Updated “About Us” to new Beacon branding.
  • Fix not all pages being displayed on the footer
  • Fix footer not being displayed on mobile
  • Added “Subscribe & Donate” disclaimer
  • Updated “Join Staff”
  • Removed “Editorial Policy” as the information is already in “About Us”
  • Merged “Submit An Idea” into “About Us”
  • Merged “Join Staff” into “About Us”
  • Add a simple footer to the mobile site
  • Removed border on buttons at top of mobile page
  • Exposed “Archives” page which was previously hidden
  • Links are now noticeable within a webpage

Changelog 9/27/23:

  • Fixed not all features being displayed on the “Features” page
  • Merged duplicate feature categories so that all features are displayed properly.

Changelog 10/2/23:

  • Updated header and footer design
  • Improved featured stories carousel
  • Some work on making the front page less overwhelming and confusing
  • Improved link design

Changelog 1/20/23:

  • Stories that display on the recent stories spot on the main page will not show up anywhere else on the front page
    • This gives more space for other articles to be shown on the front page. Since there are so many articles that get released, it’s important to give them all a place on the website. This is subject to change
  • Various changes in the backend
  • Security updates

Changelog 2/1/24:

  • Stories will now not cut will photos.
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