NOMenu.Com Renovation Update

Hello, Larry. . . The Five-Star Edition on our newly built (from the ground up) website is not quite finished yet. It should be launched in a few days. The main differences are that it has no ads (except for the site itself, and our Eat Club stuff), shows the whole article without having to link, has many more photos, and some departments not available to non-subscribers. The subscription fee is whatever number of dollars you think it's worth. You may take that literally. Thanks for thinking about it. Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

We already have it, although we're working on a way to make it more obvious. If you look at the band across the top of the page (the old menus),on the right at the bottom you'll find a small magnifying in a blocks square. Move your mouse there, and a white box will open on the left. Type in what you're looking for, then hit Enter. All the posts on that subject will come up, with the newest article first. As I said, this is not the most convenient search function, but it is much better than on the old site, and we will be refining its as time goes on and we figure out what we're doing. Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

Hello, Harold. . . We're still working on the Five-Star Page, and have taken off the need to log in for now. You can get all the current articles (but with ads, unfortunately)by going just to nomenu.com. Thanks for your patience! See you soon, I hope. . . Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

Hello, Louis. . . I probably did. . . but I revise the mailing list once a week, and this week tghe holidays intervened, as dod some masjor reworking on the way we get orders. I'll have you started up shortly. Thanks for buying the book and the sub! Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

Thank you very much! Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

We will probably put a user name/password gate on the Five-Star, but won't until it's fully put together. STrangely, the two most troublesome problems we're having is getting the ads off the Five-Star, and coming up with an easy (for the user) login. Thanks for your patience. Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

Hello, Iris. . . We have fixed this. Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

Hello, Iris. . . Are you starting from the email, or from the website? Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

That's something we'll do down the road, but for now I'd suggest that you just copy and paste the lists you want into a word processor, and print that out. The results will be better. Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

I'm sorry you're having problems with the e-mail edition of the New Orleans Menu Daily. But you are definitely on the mailing list, and except for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Days, all editions have gone out. The most common causes of your not getting the e-mail are. . . 1. Your e-mail server is blocking our mails. 2. Your anti-virus program or firewall is flagging our mails as spam, and trashing them. Both these problems can usually be fixed by adding news@nomenu.com to the address book of your e-mail program. Look through your Trash/Junk folder to see if a bunch of our mailings aren't there. It is not uncommon for a subscriber who has never had problems before to suddenly stop getting our mailings for no apparent reason. We haven't changed our mailing service or routines in five years. But the email servers change their policies constantly. E-mail is inherently unreliable. To make sure we have no widespread problems, I mail the Menu Daily to myself at several computers, running various software. But the number of possible computer and software configurations is practically infinite. Often one or two people have a problem with a mailing that everybody else receives normally. I'd like to hunt down and correct such problems on each subscriber's computer, but I'm not qualified, and it's just me here. Although I understand the convenience of getting the email edition, the online edition (at nomenu.com) has much more content than the e-mail edition, displays better, has more photos, and comes out hours before the e-mail does. The new website makes this much easier. If it occurs to you that you haven't received our edition today, just go to nomenu.com, and you'll find everything I've written in the past few days right there, with the most recent articles first. In other words: when in doubt, go to nomenu.com. Those ten keystrokes will bring you everything. Please let me know if you've added news@nomenu.com and still don't get the mailings. Or any other problem you may be having. I have a special address for subscribers: tomfitz@nomenu.com And thanks again for the subscription! Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris

Hello, Diane. . . I'm sorry you're having problems with the e-mail edition of the New Orleans Menu Daily. But you are definitely on the mailing list, and except for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Days, all editions have gone out. The most common causes of your not getting the e-mail are. . . 1. Your e-mail server is blocking our mails. 2. Your anti-virus program or firewall is flagging our mails as spam, and trashing them. Both these problems can usually be fixed by adding news@nomenu.com to the address book of your e-mail program. Look through your Trash/Junk folder to see if a bunch of our mailings aren't there. It is not uncommon for a subscriber who has never had problems before to suddenly stop getting our mailings for no apparent reason. We haven't changed our mailing service or routines in five years. But the email servers change their policies constantly. E-mail is inherently unreliable. To make sure we have no widespread problems, I mail the Menu Daily to myself at several computers, running various software. But the number of possible computer and software configurations is practically infinite. Often one or two people have a problem with a mailing that everybody else receives normally. I'd like to hunt down and correct such problems on each subscriber's computer, but I'm not qualified, and it's just me here. Although I understand the convenience of getting the email edition, the online edition (at nomenu.com) has much more content than the e-mail edition, displays better, has more photos, and comes out hours before the e-mail does. The new website makes this much easier. If it occurs to you that you haven't received our edition today, just go to nomenu.com, and you'll find everything I've written in the past few days right there, with the most recent articles first. In other words: when in doubt, go to nomenu.com. Those ten keystrokes will bring you everything. Please let me know if you've added news@nomenu.com and still don't get the mailings. Or any other problem you may be having. I have a special address for subscribers: tomfitz@nomenu.com And thanks again for the subscription! Tastefully yours, Tom Fitzmorris