Please indulge us with your patience ... | Eastern North Carolina Now

    As we now must pull together our Beaufort County Now right before your eyes, and it will be cumbersome, we will need some time to finish. The reason: Beaufort County Now will be powered by a new script - Symbiotic Publisher, V 2 - a currently untried script (BCN is the "guinea pig"), and like Symbiotic Publisher, V 1, which powered BCN for 16 months, we will make it prove itself.

    In the meantime, we ask you to be patient with us, and we will whip it into shape as surely as we will whip BCN into an online media publication which will be unparalleled regionally in its efficient operation. BCN, as was powered by Symbiotic Publisher, V 1, was certainly fine enough to disseminate information on an efficient platform, but it just would not take us to the next level, and that is somewhere we just have to go.

    Until we work out the bugs, please use the category navigational tool in the left column of the publication. It is the root of this new script, and it will take you where you want to go. We are reconfiguring the section bar, with dropdowns, along the top below the header, to resemble the category tree that will keep you going in the right direction. You can also search our database (the entire site is databased, including the calendar.)

    Stay with us as we will manifest our progress in refining the site over the next few weeks. The site will eventually redefine how an information platform should operate, and I hope you will find this a benefit as much as we will enjoy providing it to you.

    Ongoing notes of interest: Because our new script is set at 1120 pixels wide, you will need to make sure that you set your screen at least 1280 pixels wide to see the entire picture of BCN within your screen.

    To accomplish this simple feat: You will need to go to Control Panel; then go to Personalize; then go to Display Settings and then adjust your resolution to at least 1280 pixels wide. The next higher resolution is 1360 pixels wide, and the next higher resolution is 1440 pixels wide, which is where I keep mine set.

    I hear that some of the newer PCs have a higher resolution still.