Some online features, as well as news, are included on the ctnow site that do not appear in The Courant's print edition. Users need not register to access the ctnow site, but on the upper left side of the site is a welcome tag that allows readers to sign in. To sign in, readers give a user name and a password, which allows users to customize certain sections on their home page. The home page for ctnow, as well as the other pages, have a common banner, which has the ctnow nameplate and a search key for either the site or the Web. The middle column containing the news or information is one and a half times the width of a standard newspaper column.
Readers scroll up and down to see the site.
The right side of the home page contains links to the weather, the lottery, horoscopes, movies, sports, stock quotes, calendar and maps and directions. Each of these sites has an edit tab, allowing readers who have signed in to personalize their information. For example, on the weather link, users may choose their hometown and the location where they vacation each summer. A click on this site shows several Connecticut towns, giving each town's news for that day, if any, as well as municipal information. Each category has several subcategories.