Commencing mid-Nov, we are upgrading the website. It has been a touch over five years since we moved to WordPress, and the WordPress template we are using is no longer supported. Most important, the upgrade allows us to continue receiving security upgrades.
We are taking this opportunity to
- improve the home page landing experience, making the resources we have more prominent
- improve the appearance of the news summaries and ability to search for relevant news
- Increase prominence of “Ship Mates in the News” – hopefully increasing frequency of these updates,
- review the last few years to capture some news we may have missed,
- add a lot more historical content, such as recently declassified early operational history.
- along with some other behind the scenes housekeeping.
During the upgrade, some pages and menus may not work properly, and some things may temporarily appear worse (such as the “oversized” featured images in news summaries).
We also plan to finally get the planned AegisBMD.org / SM-3.org site launched, and that content moved to our sister site. (We are practicing the new WordPress template on what will become that site before implementing it over here.)
We are fans of WordPress, and the new template greatly simplifies and improves our ability to design relevant websites by us non-IT professionals that cannot speak a single line of HTML.
We will keep this notice active until we have everything working and tested on the new template.