Happy New Year!
A new year always provides us with the opportunity for a new beginning and the Ziegler Magazine is no different with the unveiling of its new format.
Let me begin by addressing a common concern among our readers. Despite what was previously mentioned, we will continue to offer general interest articles. In fact, we’re branching out into a multitude of different topics like entertainment, sports, travel, lifestyle, cooking, crafts, and much more. While we won’t be re-printing the original articles, we will offer a detailed editorialized summary of each topic with a link to the original content should you decide to reference it. Our reasoning behind this is that while our site is optimized for screen readers for the blind, the majority of other websites are created with visually appealing pictures and advertisements, a feature that does not tend to get along well with screen reading software. By eliminating the need to navigate outside of our site, we’ll be able to offer you the same information without the hassle. We will also continue to have a reader’s forum and pen pal sections for those interested and a weekly e-mail edition of the magazine will be available to those who wish to subscribe. The reader’s forum will exist as an extension of each entry in the comments section. If we see that a certain topic has created a lot of conversation, that particular comments section will be re-printed in the weekly e-mail edition. The pen pals section will only be available in the e-mail edition due to security concerns. To sign up for the Pen Pal list, follow the link in the headline bar. Many of you have also inquired about the addition of Newsline, and we plan on incorporating that service very soon, as well.
As always, we welcome your feedback on the magazine and its content. This is a magazine for you, and we want to make sure that you enjoy it. I feel privileged to be able to work with such a great audience and I look forward to writing for you all.
Sincerely,
Ross Hammond
Editor
I like this format a lot better, because it saves trees. If only certain other unnamed magazines and other publications that still only offer a choice of Braille, cassette or large print media, would take a hint that would be nice. As wonderful as Braille is, for example, it takes up space that could be used differently. It is also not environmentally friendly. So my point in writing this is, thank you and let’s continue to be environmentally conscious this year and for many years to come!