When we started thinking about a redesign of STLtoday, we knew right away that we needed to give readers easy ways to interact with the site, with the newsroom and with each other. The “Interact” channel on STLtoday is new, and it’s a quick roadmap to all the ways readers can get involved.

Those ways include IWitness, our reader-submitted photo albums; our forums; comments on our blogs; specific reader-driven blogs such as the Punch Line cartoon caption contest, the Talk of the Day and Letters to the Editor; the weekly news quiz; and our weekly schedule of live online discussions.

There’s more to come; stay tuned. This is just the start. We’ll be offering readers ways to start their own blog about whatever interests them; ways to comment on every story on STLtoday; and to meet and interact with other members of the STLtoday community.

The Interact page features some of the most interesting interactive features available each day. The “top story” on the page is typically updated at least daily.

Click “Interact” in the menu below the STLtoday logo at the top of every page on the site.