Welcome to our new, and improved, website. We are proud of our heritage as a pioneering internet magazine. During our fifteen years on the Web, the online world has changed dramatically, so our update is more than timely. Because web magazine home pages like ours are essentially the counterpart to the table of contents pages of our print counterparts, we now offer a larger, less cluttered format.

Our editor and I have worked closely with our board, and especially with our webmaster, Sandy Johnson and technical advisor, Chris Kuster over the past several months as we evolved the new look. We have been fortunate that Sandy and Chris have been with us from our earliest years and brought a special awareness of our needs to the project. We have improved our drop-down menus and made a number of other tweaks. Sandy has come up with a flexible layout which is far easier to update and tweak than the first generation. One major challenge has been to convert our fifteen years of archive material to the current format. Chris has found an imaginative way to accomplish this, but as with all such website transitions, perfection is an elusive target. So we remain alert to catch and correct errors as they become apparent. If you come upon any, please let us know. In fact, we welcome all comments on, and suggestions for further improvements to, the website. Thanks for reading American Diplomacy.

Ambassador Michael Cotter, Publisher

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