After a five-month reconstruction, The Observer’s Web site, http://observer.nd.edu, is available online.

The site includes news, sports, Viewpoint commentaries and Scene features, along with selected photographs and graphics available in the newspaper’s daily print edition. It will launch each weekday before noon.

“Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s are national institutions which now have a newspaper with a national face,” said Observer editor in chief Michelle Krupa. “Many dedicated students devoted hundreds of hours to make this happen.”

A team of students led by Observer Web administrator Erik Kushto remodeled the site, last active in 1998.

The back-end system was designed by Observer system administrator Mike Revers and consultant Marty Rose, a Notre Dame senior.

Designed by senior Ryan Mariotti, president of Video Design, the site will soon include special items like the Irish Insider football section.

“Visitors to The Observer online will be able to access all of the articles found in the print addition,” Kushto said. “We will be adding new features to the site constantly because our goal is to be the central information source on campus.”

The site will also keep up-to-date Domers and Belles outside The Observer’s daily circulation.

“An online site is great for students and faculty, but it’s especially beneficial to update alumni, parents, prospective students and student studying abroad about campus events,” said managing editor M. Shannon Ryan.

“It’s exciting to know that people all over the world now will be reading The Observer.”