
All aboard! We have a new tour. Confusingly, you may have arrived via the new tour in which case you have already seen it. But for existing members, Here it is in all its glory.
The big change is clearly that its a not only a lot better looking its also a lot bigger. When we came to do the redesign we realised very early on it was going to be a struggle to feature all the good stuff we had and the sheer size of the site if we had a small tour. So we thought, bugger it, we’ll have a large one. Funnily enough, that exact statement seems to be the answer to oh so many questions around here!
We looked at a few other sites before starting work, we even joined some. In every site we looked at, the same thing struck us; they have better tours, but the members areas aren’t as good or as large as Simonscans. So many sites these days call 40 images an update, what the hell is that about? So to show how things are different here we added the full update schedule to the tour - live from the main database, tourists can see every one of the last two months updates - sample images, update date and number of images.
Oh and unlike some other sites, we don’t hide the lame updates from non members.
Other changes include new Flash preview movies - these aren’t on the main site yet, but soon will be. Don’t worry, we won’t loose the old downloadable formats, but for previews and streaming (if that’s what you prefer) then Flash makes a lot of sense. Its certainly working out pretty OK for YouTube. The key benefit of the Flash previews are crazy small file size and almost universal playback on any computer - as long as it has Flash installed.
PS - If you do take the tour, any feedback or typo corrections would be gratefully received!
Simon