Pardon our Clichéd Dust: Website Under Construction

If you hadn’t noticed, the website has changed.

For the technologically savvy, we’ve moved from a hand-coded website that has won our retired webmaster, Linda MacCleave, numerous awards and valuable recognition, to a more streamlined engine with WordPress. For the non-technologically savvy… well, I’ll stick with “the website has changed.”

It will take a few days to get all of the content moved to the new site, but don’t despair if you aren’t able to comb through past issues of The Needle’s Eye (now VATE Voices) or pictures from conferences of years past. Those things will appear back on the site very soon. Along with those things, it is also my hope to help use the VATE website to spotlight some of our profession’s notable members across the Commonwealth, to help share ideas and thoughts. In many ways, we hope to see the new design blossom into something that helps our members come together more often than our annual conference allows and find a similar experience of refreshing ideas, debates, stories, and excitement.

For now, however, there is some dust. Please excuse it. If something doesn’t quite work properly, please let me know – but do so gently, please. Linda leaves behind some awfully big shoes to fill. As the above picture of me from this year’s conference shows, I’m a bit intimidated by it – my confidence feels up to it, but my ego isn’t quite certain.

- Rafe Telsch
(webmaster@vate.org)