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Hi everyone,
We launched our new website yesterday. Please bear with us while we are fine-tuning and fixing issues. Everything should work well within a few days. Feel free to e-mail us if you encounter any issues: https://www.myswissalps.com/contact/email/.
The idea of rebuilding our website from scratch came about in 2020. We started the work in late 2021. It felt weird starting such a project during a time when very few people were traveling because of the pandemic. But we wanted to be ready for the future, and we knew a new website was going to take time.
Annika and I are the owners of MySwissAlps, but we couldn’t have done this all by ourselves. We are thankful to have our loyal forum moderators Anna and Yolanda. We have expanded the team with developer Federico and with the translators Josephine, Maya, and Rolf. With such outstanding people, we are now ready for years to come: https://www.myswissalps.com/about/team/.
Also, we got help from people with the expertise we needed to create the website we had in mind. I’d like to thank Andy Round, David Anttony, Dino Lolli, Michal Búci, Mike Eaton, Morgan Cline, Nesho Sabakov, Pieter Bos, Roberta Lanzetti, Zachary Ashmun, and many of our partners for their suggestions and hard work. Without your help we’d not have a new website.
What exactly has changed, you may wonder? The short answer is “everything”. Except for our goal: help you plan your trip to Switzerland. Here’s a list of changes:
New forum
We no longer have separate forums for accommodation, train/transport and miscellaneous topics. All of this now takes place in one forum: https://www.myswissalps.com/community/forum/questions/.
Trip reports are still separate: https://www.myswissalps.com/community/trip-reports/.
Uploading images to your trip reports has been made easier. We also had to do a bit of cleaning up, so we removed images and other attachments of more than 6 years old.
New blog
The blog at https://www.myswissalps.com/travel-blog/ is where we will publish anything that doesn’t necessarily need to be in the main sections of the website. Examples are more detailed information that might be interesting for a small group of people only, or information that is only relevant for a limited time.
Find information quicker
Here’s the new activity finder: https://www.myswissalps.com/activities/. The filters above the list of activities help you narrow down your search, and the map below the list shows where the activities are located. And here’s the new train pass finder: https://www.myswissalps.com/travel/tickets/. You’ll find more lists like these throughout the website.
Finding accommodations and entrance tickets is also improved. It’s faster, much more comprehensive, and all of the offers are updated frequently. Here’s the new hotel finder, for example: https://www.myswissalps.com/accommodation/hotels/. Another random example is our page to find cheese- and chocolate-related activities: https://www.myswissalps.com/activities/culinary/. There’s much more like this all across MySwissAlps.com.
The search engine has been improved: https://www.myswissalps.com/search/. It should get better as it’s “learning” what the website is about.
Pages have a table of contents to quickly jump to the section you’re interested in. The arrow on the right allows you to jump back up.
German pages
All pages are now available in German too: https://www.myswissalps.com/de/. There is a language switch at the bottom of each page.
Dark mode
You can view the website in dark mode, which is easier on the eyes. There is a switch at the bottom of each page.
Extra options for members
You need to be logged on in order to see maps and weather forecasts. On our town pages, for example: https://www.myswissalps.com/planning/places/.
Members also have access to all of the promotions we keep track of. Here on our new deals page, for example: https://www.myswissalps.com/promotions/.
Promotions will also be listed on other pages throughout the site. Like before, we’ll announce the most interesting promotions via our newsletter, push notifications and here in the forum too.
You can create a free account here: https://www.myswissalps.com/create-account/
Logging into your account
If you already have an account on MySwissAlps.com, now’s the time to request a new password and log in: https://www.myswissalps.com/account/lost-password/.
If you don’t have an account yet, you can optionally log in with your Facebook or Google account. That way, you don’t need a separate password. It’s only an extra option, you can still create an account with your e-mail address and password.
Your options if you’re not a member
Unlike before, you can now subscribe to the MySwissAlps newsletter if you do not have an account with us. User accounts and newsletter subscriptions are totally separate now. You can subscribe here: https://www.myswissalps.com/contact/newsletter/.
This applies to the forum update e-mails too. These e-mails are sent daily (you used to be able to choose between 3 times per day to once per week): https://www.myswissalps.com/contact/forum-updates/.
You can subscribe to push notifications to receive Switzerland travel news and a daily forum thread: https://www.myswissalps.com/contact/notifications/.
Your bookmarks
Most page URLs have changed. Any bookmarks you may have saved will still work; you’ll be redirected to the new URL. But it’s best to update your bookmarks as the redirects won’t work forever.
I hope you like what we did
What do you think? Will you be using MySwissAlps.com to prepare for your next trip?
A review is very welcome. We’ll put it on the homepage! Click the “write a review” button on the homepage, or go straight to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/myswissalps/reviews or Google https://g.page/myswissalps.
Enjoy the new MySwissAlps!
Arno
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Great job. Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks for this renewal, go on!
Greetings Arno, Annika and Team,
Congratulations on the new website. It looks super.
I seem to have lost a few posts/replies in the transition. I was up to 8888 (seemed like a symmetric place to stop) but have now dropped back to 8812 (or 8813 with this reply).
Unfortunately the prospects for us of another trip to Switzerland are slim but we have great memories of our visits greatly enhanced by MySwissAlps.
Keep up the good work. Best wishes.
rockoyster
Thanks everyone!
@rockoyster: good to see you back. This piece of Switzerland is available for you at your fingertips 🙂 As for your number of posts: we didn’t lose posts but the number it displayed only included your replies and not the threads you started. That is updated now and you’re at 8889 as expected. I guess you now have to aim for 9999…
Hi Rockoyster,
How nice to hear from you again :-)! I’m sorry that you probably won’t be able to return to Switzerland, and I hope that the fond memories of your previous trips help a bit. Best wishes to you and your family.
Hello Arno and Team
The new website looks much better now and I think it’s good that the forums (except for the travelogues) have been merged! Good work!
I would still like to see a field for the forum at the top of the website next to Planning, Travel Activities, Accomodation. This would make it quicker and more obvious to select the forum.
Best regards and keep up the good work!
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your compliments! I see what you mean by adding the forum to the main menu. It was a deliberate decision but that doesn’t mean it must stay that way forever. The idea was that the majority of visitors first search for their information on all the main pages. They come to the forum only in case of additional questions. That’s also why the forum is linked at the bottom of nearly every page, once people have read the information and haven’t found what they’re looking for. But I will for sure keep your feedback in mind.
That must have been a lot of work, it’s looking great! Everything is easy to find – as always – and I do like the new look.
Congratulations!
Hi MySwissAlps team,
I love what I see and I love what I read on your new website. Thank you for all your work to make “the best website for Switzerland lovers” even better.
Must have been a massive operation. Congratulations with the result!
Hoping for a sunny future for your website and for all of you.
Best regards,
Wandermann
I love the new look – thank you for all of your great work and for your kind, helpful team!
Thanks Olga, Wandermann, and Lastlook. Yes, it was a lot of work. More than I could have imagined when starting this 🙂
Nice work thank you muchly; just done the reset per your email advice. Apologies had not been active on your blogs even though I was in in your lovely country in June. Was consumed going everywhere, simply forgot to log in! Best Regards and Merry Christmas! (am following social media, fantastic first snow in Zurich!) PS, attaching pics from Mt Pilatus (early June-2023)
Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos of Mount Pilatus. No doubt you had a great time earlier this year.
Yes, that’s right, we’ve had lots of snow these last few days here in Zurich. Very pretty 🙂
Kind regards,
Yolanda
Hi everyone,
Some of you missed a link to the forum in the menu. I added a link to the menu in the upper right corner. When you’re logged in, that menu has a Community link to quickly go to the forum.
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