Lookaround site improvements
New look
Over the last few months we’ve been skipping lunch and staying behind after work to make some big changes to lookaroundcornwall.com. Yes, things look a bit different, our new design is much cleaner and easier to navigate, but the changes go way beyond appearances. We’ve completely restructured the site and transferred everything to a database-driven [...]
Porthcurno mini-tour
We’ve just completed a mini-tour for Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, based on the virtual tour that appears on the website. Porthcurno wanted a way to show visitors parts of the museum where access is difficult.
The escape stairs at the underground communications centre were built to provide an emergency exit from the tunnels in the event of [...]
Search
We’re growing fast. Soon we will publish our 100th panorama and, over the course of the summer we’ll be adding more beaches, hotels, restaurants, gardens, galleries and other places of interest to Lookaround Cornwall. The more content we add the better the site becomes, but it can make it more difficult to find what you’re [...]
Travel News
Want to know the best way to get to Cornwall and to get around while you’re here? Our Travel guide tells you everything you need to know. There are links to travel reporting pages from the BBC and the Highways Agency, and info on air, rail, bus, bike and boat travel as well as walking [...]
It’s a green thing
Ever wondered how you could reduce your environmental impact while on holiday? To find out, take a look at our sustainable tourism feature which shows how, by making a few small changes in what we do on holiday, we can collectively make a big impact on waste, energy use and carbon emissions, and have an [...]
New look
New year, new look, as they say. We’ve redesigned our homepage so it’s easier to get around the growing amount of content we have on Lookaround Cornwall. Our ‘taster’ flash movie provides new visitors with a selection of scenes, and we’ve created four categories - Places to Stay, Places to visit, Gardens, Nature and Wildlife [...]
Other news
This is our first email newsletter since well before Christmas and it’s not because we’ve been enjoying an extended festive season! We’ve been busy making changes to the site to make it more visible to search engines, improving the navigation and redesiging and coding the panorama pages so that they display quickly and efficiently whatever [...]