digital.hawaiicatholicherald.com
Love the Hawaii Catholic Herald? Got a computer, digital tablet or smart phone?
It’s now easier than ever to connect to your favorite source of Catholic news, anytime, anywhere. In addition to its bi-weekly print edition, the Herald has a robust network of digital resources aimed to keep you continually informed of the latest church happenings.
Hawaiicatholicherald.com
The cornerstone of Hawaii Catholic Herald’s digital world is its website, www.hawaiicatholicherald.com. Relaunched in 2013 after the previous Herald site was unavailable for about a year, www.hawaiicatholicherald.com now features a clean interface and a growing news archive.
New articles are posted to the website every other Friday on days when print issues are scheduled to reach homes and parishes. The latest headlines can be clicked on the hawaiicatholicherald.com homepage. A photo “slider” highlights the current issue’s main stories and columns.
Each web article contains the full text and many of the photos used in the print edition. Sharing of content is simple with a “print” icon and links at the bottom of the page to more than a dozen social media outlets.
Archived stories are accessible through the homepage’s top navigation bar. Hovering your mouse pointer over drop-down links connects you to categories culled for local news, columns, features and the young adult Manaolana pages.
The navigation bar also has a link to an easy-to-follow subscription form. Typing in your name, address and other information sends the Herald circulation desk your request to receive the newspaper.
Perhaps the coolest feature on the Hawaii Catholic Herald website is the Catholic News Service multimedia player. This high-quality video feed is updated daily by CNS staffers. Crisp, streaming content includes snippets from Pope Francis’ homilies and footage from events around the globe.
Recent web headlines from CNS are listed below the media player.
Additional features on the Hawaii Catholic Herald website include PDF files of the Parish & School News and Manaolana sections. These PDFs contain the sections in full-color as they are laid out in the print edition.
The site also provides links to external pages such as the Diocese of Honolulu portal at www.catholichawaii.org, and a page powered by WeShare for monetary donations to support the newspaper.
e-Edition
Mainland digital publishing company Dirixion has produced a special Hawaii Catholic Herald “e-Edition” which can be viewed at http://digital.hawaiicatholicherald.com.
This full-color digital reproduction of the Herald’s print pages is easily navigated with side tabs providing a “Table of Contents” and an excellent “Search” function where users can find articles by specific keywords.
The main window of the e-Edition is topped by a white “toolbar” with various icons. Among the features in the toolbar are a link to www.hawaiicatholicherald.com and a real-time Hawaii weather feed.
Icons in the center of the toolbar allow users to efficiently browse and share content. One button lets readers view an issue’s pages in thumbnail size at the bottom of the screen. Each thumbnail is clickable to peruse a specific page in full-size.
Readers can browse pages singly or in two-page spreads. There are also options to print and share content through email, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. Another unique feature lets users create a bank of “bookmarks” for quick access to favorite Herald stories.
The toolbar includes as well links to the e-Edition archives. Complete digital issues are available for viewing up to a year prior to the current issue date.
The e-Edition is compatible on multimedia tablets and smart phones.
Social media
To connect with the Hawaii Catholic Herald beyond its newspaper content, visit its social media outlets on Facebook, Twitter and WordPress.
The Herald’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/hawaiicatholicherald, has more than 1,000 followers. It is a great resource for additional photos and information not published in the print edition. Followers can share comments on Catholic news items with others in the community, too.
For brief, 140-character updates, follow the Twitter handle @hicathherald.
The Hawaii Catholic Herald blog at http://hawaiicatholicherald.wordpress.com has been up and running since 2009. It includes personal perspectives of stories and events. The blog archive has coverage of diocesan staffers’ and parishioners’ pilgrimages to the canonizations of St. Damien de Veuster and St. Marianne Cope.
