New Design!
Why? The old design was uninspiring and horribly coded by yours truly. Adding anything to the site was a painstaking endeavor. This new site is completely widgetized and the backend is setup to make adding and removing functionality a breeze. I'm happy about that.
There's still some design stuff to take shape, I don't like my logo or the header area of the site. I'll worry about that soon.
New Stuff: Photographer Profiles!
I've wanted to do this for a long time. Canon Rumors is a popular site and I'd like to share the traffic with talented photographers. I'm going to do a profile every month.
For now, Mr David E Jackson will get the remainder of March and all of April.
Read the interview and check out his sites, I love his work.
Want to be profiled? Send me an email and I'll check you out. I don't really have any criteria, just cool folks!
Reviews
There will be more reviews on the site. Yes, there's lots of reviews out there. However, if you're like me, you'll read every last review you can find about something.
More Content?
I have plans for some other cool stuff. Look for it in the fall, I think you'll love it.
Why More Content?
A few reasons really.
1) I do not want to get bored. The core of this site is rumors and always will be. I do need to do more with my day though.
2) Rumor quality. Recently the rumor quality on this site has taken a hit. That's completely my fault. I get it in my head I have to post something every single day. I know that isn't the case. There are going to be slow times. We've been very successful in the past with rumors and I want to get back to that. Having other content to tide us over can only be a good thing.
Site Issues
We're still troubleshooting a site issue.
cr
82 Comments
I’ll fix the click to cancel button, thanks.
I know what your issue is, it’ll be fixed in the next day or two as I optimize the site. Don’t lose faith.
:)
Thanks
CR
Mobile versions will come online once I’m sure server issues have been sorted. I want to make it through the weekend first.
Thanks
Great new site. It seems the Price Watch is a little broken, perhaps links were broken during the transfer? It N/A a lot and the 70-200 f/2.8 IS II seems to be missing. An idea might be to add greater detail of the product and links to reviews when the name of the product or photo is clicked. Perhaps add Canon specific after market products/accessories to the price watch
The RSS and Social Media links should be below the website title, you’re not trying to promote social network you’re promote your site. It’s ok to be a little ostentatious with the title if you want. Although I do like it as it is currently. Just remember it’s your site after all we’re just here because the information you provide is great, and informative. Although I do suggest keeping the title at the top of the page above the reviews and articles.
Don’t rush it thought, good work takes time.
Oh Yeah, I forgot to add, It’d be a nice to see user reviews, perhaps enhanced by yourself with questions to the reviewer and the responses on the product being reviewed.
A user suggested products with their pros and cons. I’d like to see some reviews on products for maintaining and cleaning Canon Cameras and Lenses. They are few and far between yes I know there’s not much difference between cleaning products but it’d be nice to know what’s fine to good and what’s best to avoid.
Your issue should be fixed now.
Thanks!