We thought about not saying anything about the remodel, and seeing if anyone noticed. First, the site's new design is a much better layout and is organized in a more workable manner for us and you. Second, we thought that you should spend more time waiting for text to load than graphics.
Text loads much faster than graphics anyway.
So, if you'll notice, the Index page has three compressed graphics, and each news item only has two. Personally, I hate waiting for a site to load because there's so much graphic crap. Also, we felt that the lime green text of the previous format was perhaps cool looking, but more difficult to read. However, let us not forget that a book must not be judged by its' cover but by the words within. We considered a white background, dark text, but that was too boring.