Well, its been 10 weeks since we launched the new Dartmouth home page. The last time I posted, we were in the final countdown to launch and, since then, Martin and I have been busy maintaining the page and responding to the great feedback we've been receiving.

We've done some tweaking, mostly to the pages for Prospective Students and for Alumni, and added a page for Parents and Families. All three of those were in response to initial and continuing feedback from the community and from the offices most directly responsible to those constituencies.

Of course, we continue to get feedback through the "Contact Dartmouth" email address; we're responding to those messages as appropriate and forwarding others also appropriate to other areas of the College. As you might imagine, most of the traffic at this time of year has to do with Admissions, but we're getting plenty of "suggest a link" type of messages, too.

All of this is to say that the Dartmouth Web site will continue to evolve based on the needs of our users. We believe in our original principle of "user-centered design," and will continue to develop the site based on that principle.

I'm also continually on the hunt for new, interesting and cool content to feature in the "Up Front" section of the home page; if you know of something that might fit the bill, whatever that might be -- a new Web page, audio, video, images, anything on the Dartmouth Web -- email me.

As always, thanks for all the great input we've gotten. The response has been tremendous, and we're looking forward to the continued development and evolution of the site.

-- Rick