The Lincoln Log

A brand-new social interaction website designed for students by students is getting over 1,000 daily hits. This new website is known as NewHS.net, standing for “New High School”, and has high school students as its administrators, moderators, and users. The programmers of this network are juniors Alvin Sng and Mark Jiang.

This site is user-friendly and is very easy to navigate through with its succinct interface. It also comes with features such as online storage, photo gallery, comment wall, community forum, broadcast announcements, private messaging, RSS feeds, and site search. Furthermore, the site’s programmers strive to bring its users more creative features: a personal blog, selectable themes, and more. These attributes all give it an unparalleled lead over the rest of the competition.

The site’s most attractive feature would be the student community that it carries. It enables clubs and student government members to utilize features like broadcasting to announce the onset of important events. It also encourages students to go beyond the traditional means of communication outside of school, befitting the trend of the contemporary.

“This is a fairly advanced site created using a customized PHP engine. It uses the latest web technology,” said Sng. Both Sng and Jiang are ambitiously stating that their site is going to be a display of what this new generation of tech students is able to accomplish at their level.

The site’s main developer is Sng, who spent days on his computer with assistance from Jiang. Both of them put in a lot of effort, which can be seen through the site’s regular maintenance, updated content, and great styling.

“We are expecting to add more features,” said Sng, as they continue to improve the site.

The creator of the site Sng had never posted in online forums before the site was established, while Jiang involved himself in many online forums. Though they both had different backgrounds, they had a common goal — to create a website that would provide for high school students a place online to share their thoughts, ideas, and opinions.

In short, the site cleared many obstacles that its predecessors did not. “A hatching network with an accessible interface and a sophisticated design, New High School aims to promote technological awareness,” said Jiang, describing the site in a pithy a manner as he could.

“We are planning to add more to the site to make it as helpful as possible, in terms of both its educational and entertainment values,” said Sng.

The site is still in its beginning phases, and many changes are expected to come. To follow the development of the website, please visit New High School at www.newhs.net.