• News headline format front page - should be faster loading now.
  
  
• News updates are web-based. Not only will it make things easier for me to update (hopefully), but frequent visitors can now post directly to the site themselves using the news update form. I realize this leaves the site vulnerable to abuse, but that is nothing new. I will be administering and editing all posts as if they were e-mailed to me and I was posting it myself. I'm hoping this method of updating will work out and down the line, the site can continue with little or without any of my involvement if need be.
  
  
• Comments / notes on news items - visitors can leave their comments, opinions, or additions to each news item. They will most likely be archived also - I'm not really sure how this will work either.
  
  
• Banners - random Morrissey related banners will appear every so often beneath the news item. Thanks to the following people who banners initially - it helped a lot in my testing and set a good example for future contributors. Thanks to: Henrik Rydéhn, Julie Smyth, Scott Krajewski, Jason Omerza, J.P. Niven, Stephane Daigle, Pete Mani, Brandon Flowers, Ellie and Walter Brown. Thanks to Jake The Stripper and J.P. Niven for creating some funny parody banners.
  
  Thanks also to Jamie Charman for the graphic for the navigation bar and to Mirko Daß, Allison Lau and Andrew Marquis for some new logos.
  
  
• New chat room - for those into that kind of thing, the chat room is hosted by another site and is java based so it's much faster. I think the old one may have been draining server resources.

Feedback regarding the above is welcome - give the new site some time before deciding if the changes are good or bad. However, if there are some obvious technical problems please let me know right away. A lot of the changes are my first real attempt at custom cgi programming (although most of the code is taken from other scripts). I hope to have more time now for things like e-mail and other parts of the site (and my life!) that have been neglected.

I realize these changes come at a time when news may be somewhat sparse, but I'm sure it will pick up again soon.

Finally, thanks to those who have supported the site in the past couple of years, in contributions or words of encouragement. I also appreciate those who have backed it in places I wouldn't have necessarily seen or known about directly.