As you can see by visiting the link at http://www.immigration-information.com, the ImmInfo forum site has undergone a complete makeover. We hope that users will find the new site easier to navigate and that information will be easier to locate. The new site has four tabs across the top of the page: Home, Forum, Blogs, and What's New?

The Home tab will bring you to the Front Page. In the left column of this page, you will see three separate areas. The first, Sections, lists the major subject matter sections for articles. The second, Categories, lists the specific subject matter categories that fall within the larger sections listed immediately above. Finally, the third area, Recent Articles, lists the titles of the most recently posted articles.

The middle column contains article titles and summaries. These articles are presented in order of the most recent at the top of the column and the older articles toward the bottom. This area is useful for examining new articles. To find older articles, go to the Sections and/or Categories areas in the left column.

The right column shows recent blog posts and recent forum posts. You may click on the highlighted links for the blog entries or postings to be taken directly to the posting specified.

The Forum tab takes you to the traditional discussion forum. Not much has changed here.

The Blogs tab takes you to the Blog area. We plan to post all new articles here before moving them to the Home page. This area is searchable. For the time being, we plan to disable the comments function, preferring that visitors post their comments in the forum area instead. In this way, we can consolidate all questions and comments into one area.

Finally, the What's New tab will take you to a chronological listing (newest first) of all recently posted articles, blogs, and forum posts.

I've also decided to change the settings on this site to allow the posting of comments to Blog entries and Front Page articles. I did not enable those settings initially because I was concerned that visitors would be confused and have difficulty following the various posts and comments.

That problem has been solved by the What's New? tab on the menu bar above. If you click on the What's New? tab, you will see all new articles, blog entries, forum posts, and replies to each of those.

For the short term, I plan to leave this new policy in effect to see how things work.