Congratulations, Matt -- the new website is handsome indeed, and the drone shot of Quarry Farm on its sumptuous verdant hilltop is literally enchanting! All the best, and THANKS! *_________________________________* *Peter Salwen /* salwen.com *114 W 86, NYC 10024 | 917-620-5371* On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:34 AM Matthew Seybold <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you come by MarkTwainStudies.org today, you’ll notice we have a fresh > new design. > > When we launched two years ago, we relied on a webmaster with limited > coding skill who was literally colorblind (aka, me). > > As the site grew, existing materials got buried and new opportunities > eclipsed our technical capabilities. > > No longer. > > Paul Stonier Design has created a better looking and more functional site, > and will continue to consult for CMTS going forward. > > Even more exciting than the new look, however, is that you now have access > to a fully-searchable digital edition of David Fears’s MARK TWAIN DAY BY > DAY. > > As many of you know, David’s immense chronology of Samuel Clemens’s life, > published between 2008 and 2014, is a unique reference. We are incredibly > grateful to Mr. Fears for entrusting us with the fruit of his exhaustive > labors, as well as to Leslie Myrick, who converted the print volumes to > HTML (another Herculean task). > > Until now, there has been relatively limited access to the print volumes > of DAY BY DAY. We are thrilled to be able to make them available to > students, teachers, independent scholars, and all varieties of Twainiac. We > can’t wait to see what they do with this resource. > > There will, of course, be some trouble-shooting with the new site over the > coming weeks. Please let us know if you run into any technical > difficulties. > > Happy browsing! > > - MS > > *************** > Matt Seybold > Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies > Elmira College > Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org > MattSeybold.com >