I think there have been four or five looks, depending on how you count.
- The original "Wing Commander Combat Information Center" which I set up at loaf.pi.se to house a Wing Commander encyclopedia-type site (... still working on it...); this one was totally different, with a grid of icons from the games representing different sections. It would've been totally rough.
- The first look for wcnews.com which we launched with. It's very similar to the December version you linked above, except the right menu was graphical, with these beautiful mouseover buttons for each category. Sadly it was too big for dialup and a huge pain to add material to.
- The one linked above.
- The version from 2000 or so until 2012 which was like the one linked but with menus on both sides of the page.
- The current version, which we moved to in 2012.