{"id":5546,"date":"2008-10-10T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-10T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:11:00","slug":"fin24-gets-a-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/5546-fin24-gets-a-facelift.html","title":{"rendered":"Fin24 gets a facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&rsquo;s largest financial portal, Fin24.com, was recently redesigned using a new custom built content management system (CMS).&nbsp; This process also included a facelift, giving the popular finance website a fresh look (<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/7189\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New Fin24 website image<\/strong><\/a> || <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/7190\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Old Fin24 Website image<\/strong><\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The over-arching principle of the site redesign is to highlight our original copy by creating a greater sense of news hierarchy. The top story will provide us with the platform to chase down stories you find compelling,&rdquo; said Fin24 Editor David McKay.<\/p>\n<p>The previous redesign in July last year proved to be somewhat of a mess, and the current Fin24 team of McKay and deputy editor Ana Monteiro made certain the same would not happen again.&nbsp; The new website has been live for the past six weeks and tested thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>McKay said that the biggest test of all for this redesign is his readers&rsquo; reaction.&nbsp; &ldquo;I hope you&rsquo;ll be unstinting in your response to our efforts,&rdquo; said McKay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest finance website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fin24 is the most popular destination for people looking for the latest finance news.&nbsp; During September Fin24 attracted 480,494 unique visitors and served 2,948,222 pages.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This means Fin24 is much larger than competing websites like Business Report with 234,822 unique monthly visitors, Moneyweb with 162,495 unique visitors and Business Day with 152,564 unique browsers.<\/p>\n<p>With a fresh look and better organized information, Fin24 is likely to strengthen its position as the market leader in the business reporting space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=139634\"><strong>New Fin24 look &#8211; give your view<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading financial portal redesigned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}