The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has updated their website with a new look.

The new design is a fresh clean look for the National website that features a new behind the scenes publishing platform. Visitors will see the benefits in enhanced navigation and search, e-mail and subscription services for every page, and a consistent look and feel throughout the site.

The biggest change to Scouting.org will appear in the way that URL’s are handled. For example, the URL for the Boy Scouts program on Scouting.org has previously looked something like “http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=by” whereas the new URL for the Boy Scouts program will be “http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts.aspx”. This new URL handling system will provide more intuitive URL’s and make it easier for councils and others to provide links back to Scouting.org.

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John Pannell of The Internet Guide to Order of the Arrow Insignia, has started a series of posts dedicated to his collection of state shaped Order of the Arrow Patches.

“Several years ago at a Pre-NOAC TOR I saw an exhibit that caught my attention. The exhibitor was constructing a map of the United States with patches shaped like each of the 50 states. While he could not complete the map, he was able to show most of the states in cloth. In a similar vein, I’ve been trying to see how close I could come to making a list of the states, as portrayed on OA patches.” -John

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