One of our goals here at Sacramento Press is to make our content as accessible as possible - and to do that, we've chosen a look very similar to a traditional newspaper. We've even tried to recreate the newspaper's division into sections - sports, politics, culture, etc.

Those sections show up on the green bar that runs across the top of the Front Page of the Sacramento Press. We call it the "navigation bar," and it is designed to get you easily to the stories you want to read. To do that, we've listed our "sections" in the nav bar, one click of which will take you to a new page, laid out like the Front Page.

But we may have gotten a bit ahead of ourselves. Although our content is growing nearly as strongly as the numbers of readers we have coming to the site, we still don't often have enough content to fill up the "splash pages" that those names promise. If you click on Sports, for instance, you are more likely to get a list of all the stories that have been tagged Sports by either writers or readers.

Which is fine - you can see all our recent stories on any subject - but our goal is to have every "section" under the nav bar come up as a new laid-out page. We want you to go deeper into the site, beyond the Front Page. But to do that, there needs to be more laid out. And we're getting there, but we're not there yet.

Our hope is that very soon - perhaps this month, as The Sacramento Press Pro-Am Journalism Open begins on Thursday (Oct. 1) - we will have so many stories, written by so many members of the community, that we will have to start laying out new section pages for all manner of subjects. It really comes down to what you, our readers, decide to contribute.

In the meantime, you can still search the site by tags that reflect your interest, whether it be sports or music or city services. Just enter the tag in the search field at the right side of the nav bar, and in addition to the search results, you will get a list of all the stories we have published that were tagged with that subject.

But we've decided that as we want our look to mirror our content as much as possible, and to keep things simple and streamlined. To that end, we've taken down three of the "section" titles in the nav bar that we rarely lay out: Crime, Sports and People. We will still cover these subjects, but won't be laying out pages dedicated to them in the near future.

One of the first additions to the nav bar is a section about the Journalism Open, Open 2009. Over the coming month we will continue to lay out new contributions from citizen journalists as the contest unfolds, as well as updates from Sacramento Press editorial staff.

We will also take advantage of the flexiblity of the nav bar to put up special sections that will lead you to a page display of stories on a particular subject, mirroring our Storyline feature. This is the Web, and flexibilty is a given; we want to make sure that there's also a sense of solidity to the site as well.

I've laid out a section on the stories we've run recently on Sacramento County's ongoing budget crisis. Reporter Kathleen Haley has, just by herself, written more than two dozen stories on the subject in the last few months. We will feature just a handful here, so know that even a whole page devoted to a subject is just the tip of the iceberg. We plan to go deep into the subjects we cover.

To see these nav bar changes, you must log out and log back in, or if you're not a logged in user of our site, just refresh the page.

So keep an eye out in coming days and weeks for new featured "sections" in the nav bar. Because as with all of The Sacramento Press, you never know what you might find there.