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If you are reading this, you are at The Rake's new web site. And you are looking at the result of a lot of work by Cristina Córdova, our web editor, Matt Bartel, our web geek, Brad Richter of Codewarp, and Erika Stenrick and Ronan Dowling of Gorton Studios. Kraig Larson of Ciceron did the design heavy lifting. I'd be remiss, too, if I neglected to mention FAMFAMFAM for their creative commons icons.

I won't go into too much detail except to say that writing the Oxford English Dictionary probably was easier than integrating our old inflexible content management system into a new one.

The only thing harder than actually doing it, was thinking of all the things we wanted to do. For that, I'm going to give yet one more prop to Cristina Córdova.

And, of course, a big one to all the talented writers and artists and editors who've contributed their wonderful thoughts to The Rake for almost six years now. (One of the neat features of the new site is the author index. Click on any story byline and see what happens.)

We hope the new format will provide a better experience for you.

We know it's better for us. It will be even better for us when the memory of the birthing pains subsides.

So, tonight we're having a couple of drinks.

Thanks for reading rakemag.com.

Tom Bartel