Pardon our progress, but at long last, the Locust Fork News and Journal redesign is up. This Moveable Type blog is no longer being updated. Bloggers and search engines should change their links ASAP. The new links are:

The Locust Fork News
http://www.locustfork.net/

The Locust Fork Journal
http://blog.locustfork.net/

We are still working on some things and figuring out how to manage this new interface, but right away you will notice some changes - and we trust improvements - to the site.

For starters, the news page is now the main domain site page at LocustFork.Net. After almost three years of experimentation, it is now obvious that this page is the most popular page on the site, in part since it combines a fast and tasteful news layout with the blog interface like no one else on the Web.

You will need to update your favorites, bookmarks or your homepage link in your Web browser if you use the Locust Fork World News as your start page. We will continue updating the locustfork.net/news page briefly to allow everyone to get changed over, but at some point in the next few days, that page will no longer be updated.

As for the Locust Fork Journal, we have finally abandoned the Moveable Type software that was the hottest and best thing going three years ago, and moved into Word Press, we think the best blog software on the market right now. This will be good news to anyone who has had problems making comments in the past. We hope the comment section is now way easier to use and we look forward to reading and responding to your comments.

We still reserve the right to delete anonymous and/or offensive comments and ban commenters who abuse this site to push a personal or political agenda. We are far more interested in constructive dialogue than flame throwing. As entertaining as that might seem to some folks, it's not our cup of tea.

We are also about to be THE FIRST independent news and blog Website in Alabama and perhaps the American South to be sponsored on a full-time, year-around basis by local advertisers. While we have been a profitable news company from the outset and pioneered both the format of news sites and the funding mechanism behind it, these changes we are announcing today will help us continue this pioneering Web Press venture into the coming months and years. And it will help provide the resources to do ground breaking investigative journalism as well as entertaining literary news features with high quality digital photography.

If you have thoughts or comments on the redesign, give our new comment section a try...

For spammers and commenters, no more spam will be allowed on this site either under trackbacks or comments. Comments should be added to the new blog. This one is being disabled.