This was sent to me by an IS professional. I believe his concerns have merit, and that we really should consider backing out of this new product, returning to the previous product, and not going back to the new one until it is worthy of offering to our members. He's probably right about it taking a year or longer to get it right. I believe that the longer we wait to "fix" it, the longer it will take. Please give it a good read. Bob -- W6RGG ------------------------------------- "I do not like the new ARRL web site. There are many things about the site that I don’t like 1. Failure to use the full width of the monitor. Large blue bands/margins on the left and right side of the page waste available space and the information is squeezed in the middle of the page. 2. Left and right side bars of links compound the problem. 3. Consequently the usable page is tall and narrow, and an unnatural fit to most computer displays, hence you have to scroll up and down to find anything. 4. Low readability caused by using font sizes that are too small and font colors that have low contrast. Fonts should be black on white – never pastel blue, the worst color. 5. The site is hard to navigate, and the navigation is very unintuitive – much like trying to operate an AOR radio when you are used to an ICOM. Too many drill-down menus. 6. The periodicals search function, which is not easy to find, the search entry boxes are off-screen. You have to scroll down to find them. They should be front and center on top. 7. Periodical search returns only 8 results per page in a narrow column. With the old web site presented search results in a better format – 25 results per page in a table with one line per result and black letters on a white background. The new presentation is really terrible. You have to page through a dozen or more pages to see all of the titles. 8. Boring colors, lackluster appearance. The old web site had nice bright colors – yellows, reds, blues, black. The new web site is mostly shades of blue. It reminds me of Microsoft Windows style, which is not a compliment. I hope that you as a Pacific Division Director can persuade the League to go back to the old web site until the deficiencies I’ve noted above are corrected. I think the needed changes are major, so I don’t recommend living with the problem. It could take a year or longer to fix all of the problems."