Good start - better to come

Several thousand additional visiters to our new site on Monday (haven't seen the Tuesday stats yet). Videos have proved particularly popular. Mostly enthusiastic comments - though one correspondent questions my sanity...thanks nephew, I think your dad might have had something to do with that.
A few grumbles along the lines of "looks a bit like the old site, ie old-fashioned". Fair play, it still isn't the prettiest site. We have adapted the existing ic template and are using an oldish content management system while we develop a whole new template using a far more advanced creation system. Sadly this won't be ready until the New Year. To be honest we just wanted to switch to the Daily Post online service as soon as possible so we can bring you more regular news feeds, updates, video and audio plus the chance to interact via message boards, votes etc.
These are the key elements and we will be able to present them to you in a more congenial format soon. But in the meantime if you want proof that you don't have to be the prettiest to thrive online then look at the Guardian's site. Clunky as hell - and one of the world's most popular sites for news and comment.