REGION — The River Reporter has been working for months on an updated website with greater flexibility in engaging, informing and entertaining our readers. A beta version of the website is now live online at www.riverreporteronline.com. You'll find the new site much more mobile-device friendly, and there are integrated social media buttons for Facebook and Twitter to foster improved communication with our readers and their friends. Updates will allow us to upload more photos to share with you in slideshows, like the ones Ted Waddell is now taking of local school sports. And we feature a new blog section, where members of the community will be sharing their thoughts on an ad hoc, online-only basis.

All we need from you is a little help. Before finally transitioning from our current structure to the new one, we need readers to check out the new site and see how well it functions. We want you to be directly involved in making sure this is the best user experience possible.

Getting to the new website

If you are a current subscriber, visit riverreporteronline.com and enter your email address as both your username and your password. (Don't worry, you can change your password after logging in). Once you're in, browse the site and let us know how you like it. Or, if you find a pesky bug lurking, let us know about that too. Send an email to amanda@riverreporter.com with "Website" in the subject line, or call 845/252-7414, ext. 23. One lucky beta tester will be selected at random to win a prize just for helping us out.

Not a subscriber yet, but still want to play? We've got a very special beta-month subscription rate just for you. Click on the "Subscriptions" link at the very top of the page and select the option "Digital Access, 6 months for $12."