Mississippi Today launched a major update to our website Wednesday night – the first redesign since 2021. In this revamp, we aimed to make the site a fitting showcase for the excellent work our journalists do every day to serve Mississippians while making it easier for you, our readers, to find the news that matters to you in the form you want to consume it.
Above all, we aimed to create a cleaner, less distracting reader experience by reducing unnecessary visual clutter, removing many of the advertisements on story pages and ensuring our reporting reads well on any device. We also made a number of technical improvements for faster load time on slower connections and mobile devices.
The navigation at the top and bottom of the site was also completely reworked to make it easier to directl