The New W4 Magazine Is Here
W4 Magazine has a new home. Over the past months we have rebuilt the site from the ground up so that news and analysis from the water, wastewater, biogas and energy sectors reach readers more clearly, more quickly and in a more useful form. The structure, the design and much of what the site can do are new. Here is what has changed.
Easier reading on every device
The new W4 is built to be read comfortably on a phone, a tablet or a desktop. Article pages are cleaner, and related pieces and the next article follow straight after the text.
The feature readers used most has stayed: every article can be read in full, as a 100-word summary or as a 200-word summary, and switching between them takes a single click.
Charts, tables and key figures are no longer images. They are now proper, readable elements that stay sharp on a phone, with numbers you can select and tables that scroll on small screens. Expert quotes and highlighted sentences have their own styling, and the studies and institutions we cite are linked directly in the text.
Now in English
W4 is now published in two languages. Internationally relevant articles – 77 of them at launch – are available in English, while pieces focused on Hungary stay on the Hungarian site. The language switch sits at the top left of the menu.
Internationally relevant articles are now available in English, while pieces focused on Hungary stay on the Hungarian site.
Content in new places
Several topic pages on the old site were really article series. Each now has its own series page: the parts of the Hydrogen, Micro- and Nanoplastics, Europe at Risk and World Water Day series can be read together and in order, and every article shows which part of a series it is. The old topic addresses lead automatically to the new series pages.
Articles can be browsed by sector (water, wastewater, biogas, energy), by type (news, technology, deep dive, interview) and by topic. The Archive replaces the former "Articles in brief" page, and authors now have their own pages listing everything they have written.
New: the professional hub
The biggest addition is a separate space for professionals in the sector. The professional hub has four sections:
- Market reviews: each month, per sector, a snapshot of the market: its key figures, the direction of change and the trend over recent months.
- Weekly reviews: each week, per sector, the week's most important news and decisions in three lines.
- Professional articles: in-depth analysis, technology comparisons and interviews.
- Case studies: delivered projects with measurable results and lessons learned. The case studies previously published in the magazine have moved here.
Professional content is free with registration.
The weekly and monthly reviews in the professional hub show at a glance what has happened in each sector.
Smarter search
The new search does not need accents: "biogaz" finds the same articles as "biogáz". Results can be filtered by period (from the past week to the past year), sector, type and topic, and sorted by newest or oldest. Search also covers the professional hub.
Your own W4 account
Registering and signing in need no password: readers sign in with a link sent to their email address or with a Google or LinkedIn account. Signed-in readers can
- save articles for later with the bookmark icon,
- revisit their reading history, so an article they opened once is easy to find again,
- set the language and sector focus of the newsletter in their account,
- read everything in the professional hub.
Newsletter and feeds
The newsletter is available in Hungarian and in English. The English edition carries English-language articles only; the Hungarian edition also includes pieces focused on Hungary. Readers can choose a sector focus to receive news only from the areas they follow, or leave every box unticked to get news from all sectors. Readers who follow W4 in a feed reader will find Hungarian and English RSS feeds.
Summary
The new W4 covers the same ground as before, but it is easier to search, more comfortable to read and available in two languages. The series have their own pages, the case studies and the new weekly and monthly reviews live in the professional hub, and a W4 account brings saved articles, reading history and newsletter settings together in one place. Thank you for reading – welcome to the new W4.
The new W4 Magazine is live. The redesigned site reads comfortably on any device, every article can still be read in full or as a 100-word or 200-word summary, and charts and tables now appear as proper, readable elements rather than images. W4 is also published in English for the first time: internationally relevant articles appear in both languages, while pieces focused on Hungary stay on the Hungarian site. Several former topic pages were really article series, and each now has its own series page; case studies have moved to the new professional hub, which adds weekly sector reviews, monthly market reviews and in-depth professional articles for registered readers. The new search ignores accents and can be filtered by period, sector, type and topic. A free W4 account lets readers save articles, revisit their reading history and set the language and sector focus of the newsletter.
The new W4 Magazine is live. The aim of the relaunch was simple: to bring news and analysis from the water, wastewater, biogas and energy sectors to readers more clearly, more quickly and in a more useful form.
The redesigned site reads comfortably on a phone, a tablet or a desktop. Every article can still be read in full or as a 100-word or 200-word summary, and charts, tables and key figures now appear as proper, readable elements rather than images. Each article lists its sources together at the end.
For the first time, W4 is also published in English. Internationally relevant articles appear in both languages, while pieces focused on Hungary stay on the Hungarian site.
Content has also been reorganised. The Hydrogen, Micro- and Nanoplastics, Europe at Risk and World Water Day series each have their own page, where the parts can be read in order. Case studies have moved to the new professional hub, which also carries weekly sector reviews, monthly market reviews and in-depth professional articles, all free with registration.
The new search ignores accents, can be filtered by period, sector, type and topic, and sorts results by newest or oldest. Registering and signing in need no password, just a link sent by email. A W4 account lets readers save articles for later, revisit their reading history and choose the language and sector focus of the newsletter, and W4 can also be followed through Hungarian and English RSS feeds.
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