Welcome to the New StogieGuys.com

After five years of publishing daily, my colleagues and I would like to welcome loyal readers and first-time visitors alike to the new and improved Stogie Guys. We hope you like what you see.

This cleaner look and improved functionality is the result of months of research, soliciting feedback, and trial and error. Many thanks to those of you who took the time to provide us with comments and constructive criticism along the way.

Let me first say that, as far as content and format are concerned, not a lot has changed. It was never our intention to completely deviate from the format that has worked well since May 2006.

So, going forward, we will continue to publish daily, offering such regularly occurring features as full reviews, tips, Quick Smokes, commentaries, interviews, and Friday Samplers. We aim to keep our readers informed about the most pressing threats to cigar rights, be they taxes, smoking bans, or regulations. And, even though we may provide occasional video content where appropriate, we have no plans to abandon the written word as our medium of choice.

Aside from the new logo and enhanced color scheme, there are a number of other features that we’d like to draw your attention to. For one, we have gone to great lengths to make the hundreds of articles we have published over the years more accessible. This includes upgraded search capabilities, courtesy of Google. It also includes better organization of our Reviews Archive and the introduction of Cigar University, which organizes our tips into 100-level, 200-level, 300-level, and 400-level “classes.”

We have also improved our comments system, launched a “Question of the Month” poll feature, and made it easier to view our articles by author.

Many of the other new features are pretty self-explanatory, so please feel free to explore away. Just keep in mind that, over the coming weeks, we’re bound to discover bugs, inconsistencies, or other problems, and we’ll be making changes as necessary. And we’ve got additional improvements planned over the coming months. Your patience is appreciated.

So is your feedback. Without you, we wouldn’t have been able to build the new StogieGuys.com—a solid foundation for the next five years and beyond.

-Patrick A & Patrick S