It was just last week that the City Paper debuted a new, snazzier website, and a little further down memory lane that the Washington Times undertook its own online upgrade. Now the Examiner has followed suit, presenting the District with its fresh yet simple new website today.

Much like the Times before them, the Examiner has chosen an online presentation that while remaining simple focuses on allowing visitors to access the paper's online content more easily. There still seem to be some kinks worked out, though. A navigation panel along the site's left side allows visitors to pick the news they'd like to see, be it "Top News," "Local," "US," "World," or "By State." On the local page, top stories receive billing front and center, while the rest of the news is divided by locality and arranged in alphabetical order along the right side. Of course, the problem with this format is that news local to the District, listed under "Washington DC," is a good scroll down and a pain to find. This isn't to say that Arlington and Annapolis don't have news to offer, but more that the D.C. Examiner should put more emphasis on D.C. stories. Maybe worse is that the paper's distinct opinion and editorial section is nowhere to be found.

We suppose these are small tweaks for a new paper that while well-intentioned has had trouble establishing itself in a city dominated by the Post and represented on the fringes by the Times. We do fondly remember their circulation mishap and the time they claimed Congress had 585 members, though.