Captain, we're venting plasma!

If you're a Web geek, you know that uber-stylin' Web 2.0 Web sites have three distinguishing characteristics: Big rounded boxes, big type (big is the new small) and gimcrackery effects that show off your mad JavaScript skills. In other words, something that looks like a control panel on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Ladies and gentlemen: The all-new Channel 56 Web site. Check out those sleek rounded boxes with the big type! And see if you can beat the JavaScript as you race your cursor across the orange toolbar (ignore the yellow toolbar; it just has boring dropdown menus). All to get ready for the Channel 7-ized 10 p.m. news, which starts tomorrow: