Facelift For Bernama.com

Bernama’s official website, Bernama.com will soon get a facelift.

It will be more interactive, with a new segment ‘What Say You’ to be featured on this revamped site, which is expected to draw a larger audience to Bernama.com, which now boasts of some 40 million hits a day.

‘What Say You’ is inviting public comments on issues of interest. While the present icon, Editor’s Pick publishes letters from viewers (Letters to the Editor) on all issues, the new segment gets the public to air their views on topics selected by Bernama.

The concept of posting viewers’ comments on all issues will be retained, with the icon Editor’s Pick changed to Opinions instead.

Look-wise, the new Bernama.com is more pleasing to the eyes, incorporating the creative ideas and expertise from our own in-house web design team at the Portal and e-Commerce division.

The content driver comes from the Editorial, led by the dynamic and prolific editor-in-chief Yong Soo Heong, who is entrusted to take on the challenges from the alternative media and to entice the public to use Bernama.com as an official and authoritative source of news.

For a start, only the main (English) and Bahasa Malaysia pages will get a new look, while the Mandarin and Arabic sites will be revamped later.

Meanwhile, ahead of its launch, the segment on Letters to the Editor is also inviting the public to give their Wish-List for Budget 2009, which will be unveiled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Friday, Aug 29.

The idea is to create the momentum for the new segment on ‘What Say You’ and what better way to get Bernama.com viewers to give their views on what’s in store in the budget and their own personal expectations.