Welcome (Back) to The Baron of Deseret!

Welcome to the newly redesigned Baron of Deseret!  I'll still be making some tweaks here and there throughout the week, but for the most part, I'm happy with how it looks now.

Some technical notes:
The site seems to work fine in IE, but some of the headers aren't formatting properly in Firefox.  I'll be figuring that out as soon as possible.  (Everything should still be readable...)
Also, the site is a little more graphic intensive now--I used a lot of custom backgrounds.  Everything 'should' have alternate text/colors for the graphics so the site should still be completely readable with the graphics turned off (if your connection is really slow), but anyone who doesn't have graphics could check that and report back...
Any technical issues (browser incompatibility, etc...)--please email me.

Changes:
I eliminated the SS Lesson page, and combined all the Essays together in one section.  I also added links to the just completed Dating & Marriage series.  The Site FAQ has been redone, along with the Movie FAQ.  The main movie page has been divided into different sections for clarity, one for LDS movies, Chinese movies, and the main list of all movies.

Year One Awards:
Before we continue, let's mention some statistics and awards from the first year of BoD's existence.
Posts by me: 225
Comments by myself and others: 635
Site hits: 39,600 as of today

Commenter of the Year:  I wouldn't dream of trying to judge by quality--but quantity is easy to do!  Going into the weekend, BoD had two faithful commenters who had offered up 60 (!) comments each throughout the last year.  I had thought we were going to have a tie--but over the weekend, one of the two happened to post a small, seemingly insignificant comment which broke the tie.  (Little did he know...)  So...commenter of the year goes to Danithew with 61 comments with Kim Siever taking second with 60.  Thanks, guys!

Most Notorious Post of the Year:  Hands down, the White Men and Asian Women post, which was supposed to be just a flippant paragraph or two about an inconsequential topic before going on to something else...but is to this day the most searched post on the site by at least a 10:1 margin.  Sigh...

Post with the Most Comments:  Asian women rule again here, too--and it would have been a total runaway had I not actually disabled comments on that post back in July (!).  It ended with 26.  Here's the rest of the top three:
The definition of evil... (24)
Dating & Marriage: Chastity (24--mostly due to one person...)

My Personal Favorite Post of the Last Year:
Probably the Church Advertising post, or maybe the Dating & Marriage series in general.

Your Personal Favorite Post of the Last Year:
Beats me...should we have an informal vote?   (White Men and Asian Women not eligible...)