KISW-HomepageKISW in Seattle - http://www.kisw.com

Charlie Lybecker is the Seattle Webmaster and part-time Entercom Digital staff member.  Many of you may have worked with Charlie now and then.  Charlie brings a long career or overseeing and developing radio station websites, and it shows in his masterpiece KISW.com.

We should all look closely at the KISW website for features that could benefit our own websites.   I notice implementations on KISW.com of many of the features we had discussed while designing this project.  It is reassuring to see them successfully added.

What I love about KISW.com is it creates buckets of information on inside pages, not just the home page. Going into the BJ Shea page, for instance, you see the page has content similar to a site homepage.

  • It’s own flipper linking to key pages for the  show (I personally enjoy the BJ Shae “Out Pick Lil Mick” page).
  • Audio section listing audio clips specific to the show
  • Blog section listing links to recent blog posts and teasers
  • Video player for video from the show

A nice package if you ask me.

Other areas of interest are:

  • Weather through InterTech.  Few stations know that this is content offered by ITM for free.  Just ask ITM to add this to your site.
  • Traffic information that was gathered from the Washington D.O.T. website
  • The KISW station Schedule that integrated the same system KDFC created for their website.  Charlie and the Digital team set this up in no time.  All it took from Charlie was modifying the styles to match his site.  NOTE: If any of our stations would like their own copy of this, please ask.
  • Of course the gratuitous photos for the lads.  Notice how the page links to the photo galleries for each model.

Nice work Charlie!

Next up Buffalo’s two launches.

~n