LifeSite becomes major internet news resource
Over 8,000 pages of news, information available on the site
By Interim Staff
LifeSite, the website published by Interim Publishing Company Ltd. and co-sponsored by Campaign life Coalition, has been undergoing further major improvements during the past several months.
The biggest project has been the separation of all the stories in every Daily News report into separate web pages. Users can now easily find, view, print and email each individual story that has appeared on LifeSite since it began operating in September 1997. Each day's news stories can now be viewed and printed separately or all together on one page and the daily email sending and publishing to the website have been considerably automated. The information-packed Special Reports have now been separated into their own Special Reports page for quick access. All of this has been a huge task but is considered well worth the effort by the LifeSite team.
The sophisticated new database approach enhances the usefulness of LifeSite's respected international, national and regional reports on life and family issues and political developments. LifeSite stories continue to be quoted in numerous publications throughout North America and even in many other parts of the world. A new site search engine has been implemented so that users can more effectively search the over 8,000 individual Daily News, Interim, CLC National News and other story and information items on LifeSite.
The addition of another professional writer/researcher to the Daily News team has enhanced the ability of LSN to report on critical developments and provide activists, politicians and other leaders with up-to-the-minute action item details. Readers have been following up on these and the website has increasingly become an agent of change. Also, the recently added on-line CLC Abortion Briefing Book has been a frequently accessed resource.
LifeSite managing director Steve Jalsevac told The Interim that there is still much more in the works for LifeSite. He said that the website had to be moved twice in the past two years to new servers to accommodate the need for increased computer space and functionality. That alone was a big task. The current, but necessarily more costly server will allow for additional exciting developments as long as funding and staffing needs can be met.
Jalsevac emphasized that LifeSite is far from being self-financed and so online (or by mail to The Interim) donations are greatly appreciated and needed, both large and small.
He is extremely enthusiastic about what can be achieved by LifeSite for the pro-life, pro-family movement. Although this type of project requires sophisticated equipment and skilled staff, Jalsevac states that it is still a surprisingly cost-effective and powerful tool for the pro-life, pro-family movement.
