E-Sakal, the popular Marathi paper for over 7 decades in the country, has launched its new look online edition at www.esakal.com on Jan 22nd. The site is developed by Vishwak Solutions using its flagship offering “VPF” – a robust CMS that facilitates distributed Editorial teams. For culturally oriented Marathi audience who are online, the site presents many Web 2.0 provides seamless user interactions, user generated contents (UGC) like Reader Contributed stories, images and videos. The conventional news section and article sections are given a facelift with new look and feel. The beta site promotes the following sections of NEWS – National, International, State, District, Sports, Business, Features - related to other news sections and Editorial Blog, Chintu (Children Cartoon), Graffiti, Photo Gallery , Videos, Horoscope , Astrology, Editorial news section and many more.
Vishwak Portal Framework (VPF) helped E-Sakal with fastest time to market, increased revenue opportunities – through quick and reliable delivery of all types of contents to a wide variety of browsers and platforms. The site is developed with Unicode Fonts for Marathi (which VPF supports fully) and native language search across all sections.