Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. We’ve made some changes to the looks of this Web site that, we hope, will make it easier and more enjoyable to use.

The biggest change involves something you don’t see. We’ve eliminated that large block of links to other areas of the site that used to occupy quite a bit of acreage near the top of the home page. Getting rid of that block of links opens up more space to feature the how-to videos, projects, articles, and slide shows that make FineWoodworking.Com the most comprehensive woodworking web site anywhere.

Replacing that static box of links is “Quick Links” (see a sample at the right). Clicking on that opens up a window containing two dozen of the most useful links to other pages.

The second major change brings the community side of the site front and center. Our blogs are among the more popular features of FineWoodworking.Com. So we’ve put links to them right next to the main feature. We’ve also made it easier to find the discussions on Knots, our online user forum.

When you click on the new “Connect” symbol on the home page, you go to our redesigned Community page (see the image at right), with a prominent new feature that will highlight videos from the GlueTube blog, images from The Woodworking Life blog, lessons from the Design.Click.Build 
blog, and other content that comes from users rather than editors. The page also directs you to the Ask the Experts forum, profiles of woodworkers, and other content.

We’ve streamlined the content on the home page. Old features of the page, such as “The Daily Buzz” and “In the News” are gone and aren’t likely to be missed. We’ve put that space to better use, offering you nearly twice the featured videos and articles than before. We’ve also made the type larger and more legible and the images larger.

While we believe the changes are for the better, the opinions that matter more come from you. Give the redesigned FineWoodworking.Com a good workout and tell us what you think. Post your comments, compliments, and criticisms in the “Magazine Feedback” forum on Knots.