We realized early that a news page on the Internet would have to be radically different from other media with which we were more familiar. Most disturbing at the time was the excruciating slow speed in the modem connections. That encouraged us to spare everyone else the agony of interminably long stories. So we designed this page for visitors to very quickly get an idea of the main stories of the day in Jamaica. We called this larger column The Big Story. The column on the left presented brief news items. We tried valiantly at times to make sure the page was updated by mid morning. Sometimes we didn't make it because of demands of other work in the office. Often, it was difficult piecing together something sensible from the newspapers or radio news.

But visitors never hesitated to let us know that the news was a day or two old, so we were kept on our toes and had to deliver what we promised. We also realized we didn't have the resources to keep the page updated on the weekend. We then decided on Fridays to simply date the news through to Sunday. Holidays presented particular problems, either because most of us were out of town or not inclined to scramble the content on a rest day. Eventually, though, we worked out a system that allowed Alvin Campbell to fill in for Knolly Moses, who wrote the news page most often. Petrine Archer Straw also would fill during those times she was working as a creative consultant with Panmedia.