To: All of You

From: Some of us you don’t know who work behind the scenes at NRO.

Re: Key aspects of the latest NRO redesign and why we did it.

What’s New on the Homepage?

* Specified page-width, which will make our overall site presentation more uniform.

* Overall less-cluttered approach.

* Fewer, but more prominent, advertising spaces (something that benefits both our advertisers and our audience).

* Flash Technology: A 614 x 200 pixel “Flash” area has been installed on the upper end of the homepage. This is a highly dynamic content area. The current Flash “movie” carries seven “screens,” all of which are navigable via the colored tabs. Thus, the current amount of content in this area is seven times what it would be on a static html page, offering you, the reader, more in less space. We see our current use of this technology as a beginning.

* “NRO Live Blog Feed”: This length-of-page section will publish the LATEST posts, blog to blog, on page reload. It is a truly live feed, 24/7.

What’s New Site-Wide?

* Streamlined approach.

* A high-powered search engine. Try it — you’ll find it!

*_ A high-powered archiving system. Ditto as per site search.

Why Did We Redesign?

* Just keepin’ up with the Joneses, as they say.

Questions/Comments?

* E-mail away.