Shanghai Daily unveiled its monthly "Best Stories" and "Best Pages" awards last week.

The best story for September went to feature writers Yao Minji and Xu Wei for their story "Half and half, Chinese and Western, get best of both worlds" (September 18) - which was praised for its interesting topic, solid interviewing and good writing.

 

The best page award for September was shared by the special National Day Guide and Expo Shanghai Newsletter.

"A guide book to the National Day celebration" (September 30, A9), which detailed information on the celebration and parade with an eye-catching page design in vivid colors, was written by reporters from the Metro department and designed by Chen Jie. Our Website designers and online team also contributed to the page.

The Expo Shanghai Newsletter, produced by Shanghai Daily, is the current weekly four-page official newsletter of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination. Shanghai Daily has published the weekly, formerly bi-weekly, newsletter since September.

The best picture of the month went to photographer Dong Jun. He captured the dynamic moment when China's Olympic champion Liu Xiang returned to the track at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix (September 21, A1, B16). 

The issue has 8 sections: Cover Story, Macro Economy, Finance, Technology, Consumer, Energy, Real Estate and Auto, which have been re-typeset in the magazine.

Our e-magazine is specifically designed for business readers and is mainly based on issues discussed in the Business Insight pages of Shanghai Daily.

Officially launched in January 2007, the magazine is published every month and is free to download during its trial.

You can download the magazine via PDF files from our Website (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/emagazine/). or you can subscribe to our Insight Newsletter by typing in your e-mail address in the box at the bottom of the front page. The readers on this list will be e-mailed when a new version of the magazine is published.

ShanghaiDaily.com is now more compatible with web browsers other than Internet Explorer 7.0, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

Following the launch of Shanghaidaily.com V5.0, the online department received constant complaints that the website did not display properly in Mozilla Firefox Browser.

One user, unable to view the website using Firefox without the layout getting all jumbled up, was so disappointed that he considered the revamp "a step backward rather than a move forward."

We apologize for this issue, which was due to very short testing time caused by tight schedule. We aim to make the website look better and function better and we realize that every step forward would not have been possible were it not for the help and support from our users.

The online department has just launched Shanghaidaily.com V5.0.

The site is considered "V5.0" because it is the fifth version of Shanghai Daily's Website. The first one was a totally fee-based Website that offered subscribers PDF file downloading services. The second version was launched around October 2005 and the next design, Version 3.0, was officially launched on January 1, 2007. The fourth version, which had been thoroughly revamped, was put into use on May 1, 2008. The current version, improved from the fourth version, was launched in October 2009.

The new version differs little from the previous one structurally, but graphically it has taken a new approach. Text blocks now look more compact and images have been enlarged. Each section has its own color identity to better stand out.

Some new functional features include:

Mobile Newspaper

Mobile phone users in Shanghai are able to receive Shanghai Daily mobile newspaper every morning. The mobile newspaper focuses on top news in Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta and other provinces in China to feature a wide variety of local news and practical services messages with Expo coverage as its highlights. News in the mobile paper also has Chinese abstracts.

The mobile newspaper will be issued once a day in morning editions, 3 yuan a month. No GPRS fee will be charged for receiving the MMS newspaper. Forward the newspaper or click through URLs contained in the newspaper might trigger GPRS charges.
 
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The issue has 9 sections: Cover Story, Macro Economy, Finance, Energy, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Cosmetics and Technology, which have been re-typeset in the magazine.

Our e-magazine is specifically designed for business readers and is mainly based on issues discussed in the Business Insight pages of Shanghai Daily.

Officially launched in January 2007, the magazine is published every month and is free to download during its trial.

You can download the magazine via PDF files from our Website (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/emagazine/). or you can subscribe to our Insight Newsletter by typing in your e-mail address in the box at the bottom of the front page. The readers on this list will be e-mailed when a new version of the magazine is published.

Since its launch in 2006, "Live in Shanghai" (live.shanghaidaily.com) has always been an important component of Shanghai Daily's Website.

From a simple site providing basic knowledge of life in the city to an ambitious effort incorporating venue listings, classifieds and user involvement through the Web 2.0 concept, Shanghai Daily's Web team has always been after the best way to provide readers with an ultimate guide of the city.

Now, after three years' experience with the site's evolution, the Web team is proud to announce that the latest edition of "Live in Shanghai" - totally redesigned and considerably expanded - has been launched.

The designers first gave the Website a fresh new look, simple but graphically appealing, an important way to dispel the dry and boring feeling of the previous edition's interface.

The core content of the Website, those "classics" that have served our readers since the first launch, are still available and now form the "City Guide" section.

The acclaimed features on Metro, taxi service and many other topics have been fully updated.

The Metro page offers one of the most complete and up-to-date Metro line maps in English. Plotted on the interactive map are not only the operational lines and all the stations in use, with information on train times and a meticulously prepared surrounding map for each station, but also those lines under construction or just planned.

The major expansion in this revamp is the addition of a "Columns" section.

A lot of useful articles covering dining, shopping, health, entertainment and travel regularly appear in Shanghai Daily's Features section. But since ShanghaiDaily.com is fee-based, they become inaccessible by free users after a week and are thus "lost" in the massive news database.

The "Columns" section has been introduced to "rescue" these indispensable articles and make them available to all users. In the section, articles are grouped under several columns and are presented as closely to their layout on the printed newspaper as possible.

Of special interest is the "Block by Block" that introduces a street with surrounding attractions, shops, restaurants, and so on, each week.

The designers attach a formulated map to each street and incorporate all single streets in a bigger Flash map of a district, and then of the city - a complete activity guide for Shanghai is on its way.

The directory listings are now easier to browse and when you search for a particular venue, the accuracy of the results has been considerably improved.

Another addition is the embedded Google Map for each venue. Through the map, the exact position of a venue is now readily available and the map can be enlarged to explore surrounding areas.

The property ads in the classified section now provide more information, such as pricing and number of bedrooms and bathrooms, highlighted to facilitate comparison between different properties.

Last but not least, let's return to the home page, and see how the designers have managed to invigorate the facade of the Website. Apart from the latest issue of the "Block by Block" column and the namesake column of the site, which you are reading now, updates are applied to the home page where possible at all times, making it look fresh every day.

What's more important is the introduction of a "What's Up" panel that logs all additions or updates on the site. This shows the scale of user involvement and the efforts of editors.

Want to find out more new features? Go to live.shanghaidaily.com and experience them now.

The issue has 9 sections: Cover Story, Macro Economy, Finance, Auto, Air, Retail, Energy, Real Estate and Technology, which have been re-typeset in the magazine.

Our e-magazine is specifically designed for business readers and is mainly based on issues discussed in the Business Insight pages of Shanghai Daily.

Officially launched in January 2007, the magazine is published every month and is free to download during its trial.

You can download the magazine via PDF files from our Website (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/emagazine/). or you can subscribe to our Insight Newsletter by typing in your e-mail address in the box at the bottom of the front page. The readers on this list will be e-mailed when a new version of the magazine is published.