She said she is thankful to have hired such a dedicated person as Rohrer. It's like an additional blessing. LaVelle said she is also thankful that the Board of Publications supported her plans on this and for all the help she got from others, including Blaine Fergerstrom, the webmaster from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin . Fergerstrom invited Rohrer to watch how the Star-Bulletin web site is run. Fergerstrom said Rohrer is a good artist and made a very nice news web site.
People get their hands on Internet tools and tend to go crazy.
They over-design and cram too much junk into the space. Although the Internet is becoming popular, Fergerstrom said that it is not going to replace the newspaper, because people log on for different reasons. For breaking news stories at the Star-Bulletin, people worldwide can log on to its web site for frequent updates, he said. In the future, LaVelle said she would like to see the web site become like CNN's interactive site. Some other ideas that she has for the web site is to have new and different sections, video clips and bulletin boards.