Feed Me!!

I'm not referring to Audrey II, the man-eating plant, in Little Shop of Horrors. I'm referring instead to an RSS Feed. "RSS" stands for "really simple syndication." You've probably seen the little orange square with white radio waves [like progressively larger parentheses] on various websites. This little icon first used by Mozilla's Firefox browser was adopted by Microsoft and Outlook back in 2005 and it quickly became the industry standard to indicate syndication data. By clicking on this icon, you can subscribe to the feed so that you are automatically updated when the content changes. What a great way to keep current with NALS News!!

I keep up with a variety of sites, both for work and for entertainment by using Google's Reader (a web-based aggregator) which searches out and finds the stuff I care about and automatically updates my iGoogle homepage. Then I only have one place to look for what's new in the fields that interest me, be it NALS, The Quilt Show, Lost, Project Runway, Grammargirl, or the blogs of friends, family, and colleagues around the world.

Simplify your life by subscribing to NALS.org today!

New NALS Website Design!

Well I hope you all were pleasantly surprised when you surfed to the NALS website this morning. I uploaded a new site design and structure last night that will make updating easier as well as make printing pages easier and more enjoyable for you! The new design should only print the information you want along with a header so you will not get that annoying link text all over the place and the text should not get cut off on the right.

This redesign is also being done to keep the NALS site fresh and up to date with todays coding technology and will allow us to keep this updated more easily. Click around and you will see that the information is all still here and most of it is still in the same place, it is just dressed up a little. Take a look at the new "press" section where I will be posting press releases that come across my desk to let you know some things going on in the industry and also give you a heads up on new products that may be coming out.

I hope you enjoy the new look and I hope to get all the bugs worked out ASAP, and I appreciate your patience in getting all the wrinkles ironed out.

Jay