If you looked for us in December, you saw a sign posted on our door that we were taking the month off for a bit of a reality check so we could rework the E2k site. We wanted to do more than just change the journal's wardrobe; we wanted to give it a cleaner appearance, a faster load time, simplify navigation, and make it easier for us to handle and maintain, given the limited amount of time we all have in our schedules.

Thanks to Jason Nolan for the site design and the coding, we think we've done that. You'll find a clickable table of contents on this page with every new issue, but you'll also find the section links at the top of the page, and a modified "next" or "previous" link at the bottom right corner of each page, which will allow you to page forward through the respective sections. In other words, clicking on the ">>" symbol when you're on the first fiction page will move you forward to the next fiction page, and so on. Likewise, the pages are not graphically intensive, so they should load fairly quickly. We owe a special word of thanks to Rochelle Mazar for the one graphic we do have.

We're not quite finished. We're still finding small details we need to fine tune, so for the next month, the site may be a work in progress. For instance, much to my personal chagrin, this site views best--at the moment--with Internet Explorer. For those of you who prefer non-Microsoft products and normally use a browser like Netscape or Opera, hang tight; it's a matter of fine-tuning the code, and we're working on it. The site is viewable in all the browsers we've tested; it just may not be quite as pretty.

We hope you'll enjoy the new look and feel of E2K, and stay with us as we bash out the remaining kinks.

--Rhonna

• Editorial: From the Publisher's Desk. "Battle for World Peace" by Robert Marcom, Publisher/Owner

• Fiction: "Yellow Dog" by Lynn Bey

• Fiction: "Twelfth Brother" by Velma Smith

• Creative Nonfiction: "Rounded Corners" by Gloria MacKay

• Poetry: "Nothing Shaken" by Eve Briggs

• Poetry: "Looming" by jj goss

• Feature: Flash Fiction: The Short-Short To Ultra-Short Story by Pam Casto

• Feature: Review of Dan Poynter's Writing Non-Fiction: Turning Ideas into Books by Maggie Ball

• Feature: Ceci n'est pas un blog! by Jason Nolan, Editor-at-Large

• Feature: Review of Tom and Liz McClintock's Hearts that Cross an Ocean by Julia Brown, Staff Writer

Net Author's E2K . . .

• 2002: Writer's Digest: 25 Best Places to get Published Online (#9): http://writersdigest.com/25online.html
  
• 2001: Writer's Digest: 50 Best Places to get Published Online (#12): http://writersdigest.com/50online.html