Get your tissues out. It gives me absolutely no joy to advise you that HC2′s Design News is going on a brief hiatus until January 1st, 2010. This is necessary in order to put the finishing touches on our latest, and greatest website overhaul. Version four if you can believe it! Now, eight weeks may seem like a very long time, but when you’re on this side of the looking glass, it’ll go by in a flash. For the past one and half years, we have employed Joomla as the Content Management System (CMS) to help operate our flagship site. Since then, we have completed numerous client projects using WordPress, which is much easier to develop, customize, and maintain. Come January, we’ll be back just in time for our annual “best of” series, showing off the greatest artists, architects, advertisements, technology, and community-centric ideas from 2009. We’re also planning some changes such as shortening blog posts, which will allow us to post more content, more often. In addition, our projects section will have a new look, and our services refined to reflect our growing skill set. Last but not least, we’ll be making it easier to comment, and convey which bits of Design News you love, and otherwise, not so much. Until then, enjoy the rest of 2009, and stay safe during the silly season.