After several weeks of hard graft, and even more time spent deliberating over the future direction of the site, we proudly unveil the new look Obsessed With Film.

It’s very much early days, and your help will be very much appriciated in helping us iron out any bugs, but we felt with it being the start of a new month it made sense to go live with the design today. There are still a few areas we need to complete, including the much discussed individual blog areas which will give writers an exclusive area to voice their own opinions. The footer of the new design is also awaiting completion and will include various useful links to help you navigate through the pages. IE6 users, and those who don’t have default font sizes on their browsers, may face the most difficulty in this early stage.

The new design represents the first phase of a 3-step development which will hopefully see Obsessed With Film become one of the most respected and visited movie hubs on the Internet.

Phase 2 will see the introduction of a huge database project which will see us carrying pages for each and every new release and upcoming project. In addition, the database will include actor and director ratings – something which is inexplicably missing from IMDB.

Phase 3 will require a little bit of your help as it involves spreading the OWF word globally. We will be carrying out a huge marketing campaign both on and offline, and with your help we hope it will see us become the number one source for all things film. Already reaching over 100,000 movie fans every month, we want this number to at least double by the end of 2008.

We wouldn’t be half the site we are today without the continued support of all the regular contributors – both writers and those of you who regularly comment. We’re expecting big things for the site in the coming months, and we are looking forward to you being a part of it.

Your thoughts, as always, are welcomed.

by Peter Willis
Marketing & Development