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December 18, 2011
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This month marks the very last issue of the Stogie Fresh News. Read more below...
Out with the old, in with the new
They say, "All good things must come to an end." And so it is with the Stogie Fresh News. This coming January would have marked the 3rd year of this publication. In that time I have brought you new articles not published anywhere else, and reminders of articles that were published in one section of the Stogie Fresh website, or another. This will be the last issue of SFNews, but it is only the beginning for new things happening at Stogie Fresh.
It has been a long time coming, but big changes have been sorely needed at Stogie Fresh. In one sense, the need for the Stogie Fresh newsletter was because of the inability of the current website to sufficiently meet the needs of the Stogie Fresh community. The website has been showing signs of age for quite a while now. The site is 7 years old and has been put together in pieces, over the years, as more new sections were needed, but didn't fit cleanly into the web shell. Indeed, the original website was supposed to only cover the topic of cigar humidors, maintenance and all things related to keeping your stogies fresh. Hence the name: Stogie Fresh.
So today, I want to introduce you to the COMPLETELY REDESIGNED STOGIE FRESH WEBSITE. For the past month, I have been spent sleepless nights revamping the Stogie Fresh website. This is not a site hosted in a content management system, but I have coded the site from the ground up. I wanted complete control over the site and all the functions of the site. I wanted to be able to bring you a site that is formatted in the way I think will most benefit the user.
Naturally, I have been dreading the redesign because I knew it would be a daunting task. There is so much information on Stogie Fresh that my Internet Service Provider has more than once threatened to shut down the site unless I cleared a ton of disk space. You can imagine the amount of audio, video, photos and text that have accumulated over 7-years. With 1,000 visitors a day and 100,000 page views per month and visitors from over 100 countries around the world, the traffic has been pretty substantial.
Nevertheless, recently I was inspired to finally roll up my sleeves and get to work. The all new Stogie Fresh web site will be better in every way. It will be more intuitive and easy to navigate. It will be chock full of multimedia resources and will provide you the most focused cigar education that you can find on the web.
The new site will take me back to my roots as an educator. Education has been my life and it is what I do best, so the new site will focus on EDU topic areas: Humidor EDU, Tobacco EDU, Cigar EDU and Health EDU. These sections will provide a multimedia education in the assigned topics. Text, audio, video and photo illustrations will clarify the feature-length educational articles.
Besides the EDU sections, I will have a Cigar Journal section that will focus on "News, views, interviews, and travel."
The last two sections are just as important: The "Reviews" section will cover all Stogie Fresh cigar reviews to date in an easily searchable format. The "Podcast" section will supply you with every podcast ever produced by me at Stogie Fresh.That's nearly 300 podcast episodes (and counting) for your listening pleasure.
In the months and weeks ahead, I will refine and improve the new Stogie Fresh website, which will now be located at a new web address:
http://www.stogiefresh.info
The .info domain seems fitting because that is what I have always done: inform and educate. Also, rest assured that the pages of the old website will stay the same. If you have linked to any of those pages, those links will remain unaltered. Of course, you can also choose to update your links with references to the new site. All articles that have been transferred to the new site, have been re-edited, re-illustrated and re-written to update them to the most current knowledge and understandings of the topic matter.
So, this is not goodbye, it is "hello" and welcome to the future of Stogie Fresh! I would like to extend this invitation to join me at the new Stogie Fresh website and partake of the rich content that I will continue to supply now, and into the future.
Thank you so much for your tremendous support of the Stogie Fresh News over the past 3 years. Though the Stogie Fresh News is no more, you can be expecting more new and educational features in the new StogieFresh.info website.
Keep rockin',
Doc Stogie Fresh
StogieFresh.com