\nthe January article<\/a>\ndidn’t happen, since it’s not mentioned in either of the later articles.\n\nThe February writeup does brag about the Industrial Authority’s “newly-designed Web site”.\nWell, it’s fancy, all right.\n\n\nUnfortunately, unless you’re using a tall screen (not a laptop)\nusing it requires constant scrolling up and down.\nThe hexagonal navigation is snazzy looking, but the top third\nof a laptop screen is taken up by\nIn practice, the pictures at the top take up a third of a laptop screen,\nthen there’s the navigation buttons, and the items navigated too are\nbelow the fold until you scroll down.\nOh, wait: there’s duplicate text-menu navigation on the left halfway down,\nbut whenever you use it it jumps you back up to the top.\nSimpler would be better.\nWhich is too bad, because there’s a lot of very useful information in there.\n
\nProminently missing, however, is a list of projects such as those mentioned\nin the newspaper writeups, with current status and plans.\n
\nMaybe instead of a traditional media campaign, at lower cost the IA\ncould simplify its web site and use social media to get it more recognition.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to those previously blogged, some other projects are also mentioned in Sunday’s VDT article about the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority. Malynda Fulton’s writeup of the February Industrial Authority meeting mentions a couple more projects, Project Butter, and Project Loaves, both about baking, that don’t appear in either the January or April articles. This […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,321,21,121],"tags":[5811,8701,5807,7,5808,8799,5809,5810,3203,6,180,508],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-food-and-drink","category-planning","category-webtech","tag-baking","tag-georgia","tag-kara-ramos","tag-lowndes-county","tag-malynda-fulton","tag-media","tag-project-butter","tag-project-loaves","tag-social-media","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-HW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}