11 September 2007 | New format is now live
by Marschant Escorcio

After what seemed like ages I managed to pull finger and do a major revision to the structure and functionality of The Swell Guys. No more messing around with volumes and issues, I've combined the whole damn bamboozle, bet you didn't know we had so much content hey.

Noteworthy changes are Stop Motion (which no longer uses Flash), Full Motion (which now uses Flash) and our new article repository. Many changes under-the-hood but I'm not gonna list them all.

That isn't to say the new revision is bug-free, developing from your own system and going live are two different beasts entirely. I still have around three bugs to sort out:

• UTF-8 Character encodings have caused havoc so please deal with any spelling error fixed
• RSS feeds are scrambled in certain cases - once again due to html entities not being decoded correctly fixed
  
• Stop Motion thumbnail paging - almost there, what a nightmare - it's done, just gotta implement it!
  
• and finally if you're reading this post then I've sorted out our news functionality - eish!

My broken board is fixed and hopefully I'll now find the time for a surf! Hope you like our new format!