Meet the Ladies Who Launch: Sarah Bell, Kim Lofgren, Jen Aranyi, Aubrey Altmann, and Gillian Berenson. They’re the designing women here at Hanley Wood responsible for the revamp of REMODELING’s website and now, with this issue, the new look for REMODELING magazine. Their collective effort created a structure that we hope will make both of those products more valuable to you.

We made the changes because you aren’t the same businesspeople you were during the housing crash a few years ago. Again and again last month, in the packed aisles at JLC Live in Providence, R.I., I heard remodelers eager to tackle several months’ worth of jobs—a backlog created by customer demand, not just the fiendish winter. You’re busier than ever, so when you turn to services such as REMODELING you deserve content that’s quick, compelling, and visual, and that traverses an array of subjects.

The new-look REMODELING created by our design team aims to do that in many ways. “Punch List,” the opening section, begins with timely reminders for the month and follows it with brief news alerts. “Your Business” continues our practice of combining news reports and experts’ advice through features like “How-To” and “Good Form,” but in a less formulaic format. As a result, we have increased freedom to produce more visually creative reports than in the past.

You can expect our feature section to carry on its tradition of award-winning reportage, the kind of work for which REMODELING last month won two prestigious Neal Awards for business-to-business journalism based on a pair of cover stories from 2013. Here is where you’ll continue to see mainstays such as the Big50, the Remodeling Design Awards, and the Remodeling 550, as well as enterprise pieces on technology, television, and The Next Big Things in remodeling. You’ve also told us that you value our products articles, so you can expect roughly a quarter of our coverage to be devoted to new products, how to use them, and who uses them.

Years ago, REMODELING executive editor Sal Alfano set a goal for this magazine: Show remodelers in the context of their work. Nowhere is this more true than in our design articles. Mainstays such as “Before + After,” “Kitchen + Bath,” and the home performance section will continue striving to display your imagination at work. We’ve also added a back-page feature, “You Built It,” heralding out-of-the-ordinary examples of beautiful things you and your teams have done.

The new-look REMODELING magazine arrives a few months after we unveiled a redesigned website that’s brighter, more newsy, and easier to navigate than before. Traffic figures indicate you like it: Visits for Remodelingmag.com during the first nine weeks since its premier have shot up 49%, and page views are 35% above where they were in the same period last year. In addition, we’re hearing more about our articles: For example, more than 200 of you used our new-look comments section to say whether remodelers should seek to starve Angie’s List by boycotting the review site.

Good design helps encourage such activity on the website. I’m betting the work on the magazine will prove to be similarly inviting.