Thanks for your patience. YOU are the target audience for this website. Right now we're working on a major re-design for the January issue. At the start of each month they will appear in four equal width columns. If you have a minute, please send me your thoughts about Interactive Design Forum .
Designers have the attention span of goldfish.
Overall I think the idea is a very strong one, however, it feels more literary than design-driven to me in its current iteration. For a content driven site, this is a great start and the content is good, but I would like to be romanced more before I marry it. This month's addition to our Open Source EDU section was sent in by Diana Black, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I pretty much struck out thinking of a clever holiday theme for this month's banner. Getting a little desperate, I looked through a batch of pictures from when I was in Chicago last month for the ACD Living Surfaces conference .