For the present, however, the site is forced to do whatever it can on a meager budget to be entertaining or useful. For instance, it offers the paper's classified ads online. The photos can be downloaded for free for use as screen savers and desktop backgrounds. It offers a guide to the region's 111 golf courses. In many ways, Seattle P-I Plus Online also serves as a sort of cyber customer service counter.
Users can come here to straighten out subscription bills or home delivery problems.
Or, they can see what job openings are available inside the newspaper company. A section under construction will soon highlight the names and celebrate the exploits of the print edition's top delivery personnel. The paper also runs the e-mail address of each reporter with each bylined story that runs in the print edition. The Web site's directory lists 158 names, titles, and e-mail addresses that cover just about every staff member connected to the news operation from publisher J.D. Alexander and editorial cartoonist David Horsey to sport statistics clerk Dave Guest and column assistant Nina Ruchirat.