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New additions to the travel and music sections aim to build synergy between the print and web versions.

Readers will be able to download a top 10 of tracks, voted for by users in the new 'Reader Recommends Culture Vulture' section of the web site (www.guardian.co.uk).

The company is in discussions with several digital partners to provide downloads, which are likely to include iTunes.

To build dialogue in the travel section, the web site is using 'Wikis', a type of software that allows users to add and edit information. 'Been There' asks users to supply information on cities they have visited to create travel guides. It follows the same model as free encyclopedia site Wikipedia.org, which hosts about 500,000 articles.

Adam Freeman, deputy ad director at Guardian Newspapers, said: "We're using the internet as a way to gather interesting information from people, where it is easy to build communities, and then summarise it and pick the best bits for the paper."

Several cosmetic changes are to be made to the site to reflect the new-look paper, but a decision has yet to be made on what will change.

This comes after a two-week promotion to offer the digital edition, which normally costs £9.99 a month, for free during September.

The Guardian's relaunch was supported by a major ad campaign through DDB London and achieved a dramatic 40 per cent leap in sales on its first day of distribution.