In case you haven’t already heard, Deep Thought will be closing up shop for about two weeks, and will relaunch on March 2, 2008. This is a project we’ve been working on for a year now. It’s had its starts and stops. The plans have changed once or twice. We’ve even gotten to some heated debates and arguments! Our relaunch has been a long time coming. I wanted to take a few moments to explain to you why we’re relaunching, and what you can expect over the next couple weeks.

Why relaunch?

With the exception of tweaks and changes made to our home page, the site you see as of this posting is the same design we’ve been using since July 2005. In Internet years, that’s an eternity. So just on those grounds, Deep Thought is about ready for an update. But there are other reasons to relaunch too.

Although a good deal of our content is Mac-related, we are not really a Mac site in the same sense that MacRumors or The Mac Observer are. We talk about Windows. We discuss hardware and gadgets. We do some gaming. If it’s tech, it’s on Deep Thought. This, of course, presents a problem. As it stands right now, everything is sort of tossed together. If all you want to read about is Mac stuff or Windows stuff, you’ll have to wade through a mess of articles discussing other matters before you get to what you want to read. We hope to correct this with our redesign. I won’t go into details now, but you’ll see what I’m talking about soon enough.

In a nutshell, we’ve been working on a big re-thinking of Deep Thought. We want to make the site easier to navigate, easier on the eyes, and more enjoyable to visit. We’d like to see more of you stick around for a while. All of us here at Deep Thought are really excited to show you what we’ve been working on, and when you see it, we hope you feel the same way.

What to expect over the next two weeks

Beginning Monday February 18 at 12:01 AM Pacific Standard Time, Deep Thought will close, with he exception of the home page. The article archives, forum, and so on will not be accessible to readers during that time. We may stick an article or two on the front page in the meantime, but we will not be publishing otherwise. We will spend the time focusing out effort on finishing the redesigned site.

The new Deep Thought will be unveiled March 2nd.

Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Feel free to post a comment below. Thanks for reading Deep Thought, and we’ll see you on the flip side!