I hope you don't mind a little criticism about the new site.

It is a little slower navigating around the site as if much more is required to download jumping from screen to screen, but this may be one of the kinks you mentioned that may take a few days to work out.

The old site seemed to be a site more focused on recruiting new membership to enjoy the activities organized and/or participated in by the glocals members with a maybe a little tired format that could have used some dressing up with some new colors and a few adjustments but truly served the purpose of being a social networking site for people in switzerland to meet up and enjoy.  The opening screen had a significant percentage of it dedicated to new members that seemed to change frequently throughout the day, and it was easy to navigate to find the groups and activities you wanted.

I think the new site is much more modern, but a design seemingly less devoted to acknlowledging it as a social networking site for swiss peoplefocused on the personal touch of a small business recruiting newly located people in a strange town as well as local to join, but appears to fall into a similar design as a global travel website more fit to attract an audience wanting to visit swiss from another country. This is okay for a travel website, but seems a lot less personally devoted to making tons of friends in your local town or your new town. It feels like it was designed by a corporate web design team causing it to have lost a little of the charm of an operation by a couple of expats operating a social network no matter how large it is.

I still like it and it will probably take a little getting used to and to learn with its new apps and navigation tools available to make more options more accessible. If I had not seen the old site, I would probably feel stronger about the new one as it is a very professionally designed website and very utilitarian.

Congratulations on the new site!!!!

Hi Graham

Re the links in the mails - this should be fixed today.

Re the name search  - it should work ok, maybe the person you are searching for is registered in a different city?  Change the city menu to 'All Cities' and search again.

Re the site speed - we're still in testing mode, and will optimize the code and html as soon as we understand where the bottlenecks are.

Thanks for the feedback

Oded

Casuistik

I dont understand what you're refering to.  Can you please explain?

O

 Caus -

Looks like there are 2 ways to add a url:

1. Just write it in the text (example: www.glocals.com)

2. Write the text you want to link, highlight it with your cursor, click on the globe icon, insert the url, click ok - the selected text will be a link (example: this is a link)