page_title: This Week (newspaper)
section_title: Online presence
hierarchical_section_title: This Week (newspaper) / Online presence
caption_attribution_description: English: Wales.info beta web platform development, supporting the "THIS WEEK" Insight Magazine Supplement, featuring The Countryside-Y Cefn Gwlad.
context_page_description: This Week was the free national tourism newspaper for Wales published between 1988 and 2005, established by Steven Potter and Terry Jackson to provide Local Knowledge Nationwide to visitors. It laid claim to being the first colour tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom using new, digital pre-press technology on an Apple Macintosh 512K desktop computer, a claim that remains undisputed. It laid further claim in 1995 to being the first newspaper published online, to extend local knowledge Worldwide using the original Netscape Navigator v1.0 web browser within months of its 14 December 1994 launch.
  Despite these early successes, the newspaper faced the same challenge as its elder contemporaries in making well-curated content pay on the World Wide Web while maintaining a traditional print presence, costly by comparison. The last edition of the newspaper appeared in 2005 under its associated Staying in Wales masthead with a new "Insight" magazine supplement featuring The Countryside–Y Cefn Gwlad while This Week went into hibernation for an indefinite period of time.
context_section_description: An article entitled The Virtual Wales Tourist appeared in 1995 editions of the newspaper announcing the online presence of This Week at thisweek.co.uk after release of the Netscape Navigator v1.0 web browser in December 1994. It is believed to be the first online newspaper of its kind.
  
  It was the Taste of Wales/ Blas ar Gymru Campaign, however, that provided the first real opportunity for This Week to demonstrate the significant advantages the World Wide Web held for Welsh tourism with online mapping at its core. The newspaper's status as an Ordnance Survey licensed development partner would have been key at this stage were it not for licensing problems not resolved until many years later following establishment of the Open Data Institute in 2012. Instead, an alliance was formed with Google Maps and a deal brokered by the newspaper for the Wales datasets to be brought up to the same standard as those for England. As a result, and following acquisition by the newspaper of the Wales.info national web domain, Google Maps was used extensively in the beta Wales.info web platform 
   The platform was used to demonstrate proof of concept and validate markets for linked, geospatial data on the World Wide Web. The new Countryside Wales UK website gave an early indication of the newspaper's online direction of travel following publication on the web of the first THIS WEEK WALES interactive online edition in 2005.
caption: Wales.info beta web platform development, supporting the "THIS WEEK" Insight Magazine Supplement, featuring The Countryside–Y Cefn Gwlad.