Seems interesting this year that Election Day and Halloween are exactly one week apart. Seems to me there's a hidden message buried in there somewhere, but I'll leave that alone.

THE REAL NEWS IS THE NEW WEBSITE, on which we've made fantastic progress since I last wrote. The home page is live now (though we have not yet switched the site over to it). You can see it -- and use it -- at http://www.jmbcommunications.com/sxm/index.shtml. You can also find practically anything you seek on the new site using the "Google Search Utility" on the top of the left-habd column, on all pages.

We are still adding pages (we have dozens and dozens and dozens of them) and we're going through every page, word by word, making updates, additions, and corrections . . . and ensuring that all the links work on our new pages (a mammoth job since every link on every page must be updated, and there are thousands of them). Then we are proofing everything. Then, finally, we will switch over. Our target for that has been "Fall" (loosely put, for good reason). Right now we think the actual switchover should happen during Election Week, but sooner (or later, alas) isn't out of the question.

You can use the new site in the interim, of course, but it may be a little quirky until we formally sign off on it -- and set it live. The old pages will stay up too; they will just have a big new headline to tell readers the new site is live and that's where they should go. There will be a direct link on all old pages to the equivalent new page so you can bookmark it.

Re the condorentals page... once we switch, the new page will be updated but the old one won't. It'll be clear. We know that page is important to many of you.

We're also going to be adding many entirely new pages and features over the next few months. For example, we'll add a restaurant map...point to an area of the island on a map, and voila! You'll be linked to information on restaurants there.

The new site will be a whole new experience in ease-of-use. Kudos to the entire team that has been working on it, but especially to Dennis Randall, head of our Design & Conversion team, who has done a tremendous job. You can see a description of Dennis at http://www.websitesthatwork.info/who-we-are.shtml . Dennis is Chief Designer for our website operation, Websites That Work.

Catch you later.