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It’s a New Year and with it comes a new face for The Pacifican. Thanks to Nick Hansen, Junior Communications major from Danville, California, The Pacifican has found a new home on www.ThePacificanOnline.com. The former domain, ThePacifican.com has been sold but that is old news and unimportant because the new domain hosts a variety of new and improved features.
The new site has an entirely new style; ditching the old yellow color scheme, it now reflects the official orange and black Pacific colors. The site now has school spirit and a collection of new components to benefit our campus.  The Pacifican has a new domain on the web thanks to Nick Hansen. It features every article from every Nick Hansen originally got the idea to re-do the site when he wanted to send a letter he wrote in The Pacifican to a friend. He had no easy way of doing this because The Pacifi can’s site, to his dismay, had not been updated in two years. But now, thanks to him, if you read an article and you want to share it, all you have to do is send the link to a friend and they can instantly access any article, whether it is News, Perspectives, Lifestyles or Sports. Each section of the paper has its own sub-domain, for example, sports.thepacificanonline.com.
The site also has a newsletter system to keep people off of campus up to date with campus life. The newsletter system will benefit parents, alumni, and anyone who cannot make it to the Stockton campus to pick up a hard copy of any issue. Old issues will be accessible on the site through the archival pages. You can also download the entire front page to your desktop, and, just like the weekly Pacifican the weather is in its traditional location in the top right hand corner. This is up-to-date and provided by weather.com.
Nick Hansen has years of web design experience and it shows. He started building sites his sophomore year at Monte Vista High School. He has built sites for a cultural museum, LEDmonthly.com, and most recently DormRoomLayouts.com. Dorm Room Layouts is “geared toward UOP students and about what you can do with your room” says Nick.
In regards to the new site, The Pacifican’s advisor Dr. Alan Ray explained to The Pacifican staff that, “it is the future, and he’d like to see it updated daily to keep the student body accessing it often, possibly even more than the actual newspaper.” The site is being critiqued by web designers across the country and has received great reviews. The hardest part of the site, according to Nick was the layout. He decided on using the school’s official colors and received additional layout advice from Aaron Monello, a web designer from New England who works on a site called crashgraphics.com. It took Nick two months to complete the site and he plans to stay on as manager of the site until he graduates next year.
 It is the future, and he’d like to see it updated daily to keep the student body accessing it often, possibly even more than the actual newspaper. 
If students are interested in helping out with ThePacificanOnline and getting some valuable first-hand web design experience they can e-mail Nick Hansen at
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. The staff has dreams of implementing new features like videos or sound clips to go along with the stories. For example, a highlight from a Pacific basketball game or a scene from the drama departments most recent play Dancing at Lughnasa.
Don’t miss this new site, it is a great source for students, staff, alumni and family all over the world.
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This is awesome! Great article too.
