One more house-keeping note. A few readers have written in fearing that I’m about to turn TPM into some whacked-out imitation of the MTV website or something else with 
long-downloading graphics or annoying pop-up ads or perhaps other similar terribleness.
Not to worry. The redesigned site should look very much like the current one and to outward appearances should look more or less unchanged. The changes that I do plan on having made are things like making it easier to print out individual posts, an RSS feed, the ability to adjust the size of the text. That’s for all of you archeo-TPMers out who’ve written in to tell me of the perils of reading your daily TPM with that not-what-it-used-to-be eyesight.
Other changes won’t be visible to readers but will make it easy and less time-consuming for me to update and maintain the site, which I’ll appreciate a great deal. Up until now I’ve designed and run TPM from the ground up, doing all the coding by hand, which is something like writing an article with a decently sharpened piece of charcoal.
I’ve always been a fan of web design minimalism. And that feature of the site won’t change.
