Gimme, Gimme, Gimme That Scoochy Love!

Grab Some Scooch!

Yes, we're excited! The day has arrived. Our fingertips are raw but our hearts are light. Scooch v1.0 is ready for you to download and use with heaps of new features!

See the all-new Scooch web site to browse a live demo, take a guided tour or emerse yourself in the possibly mind boggling but highly detailed features list. Oh, and for the true masochists among you there's the Scooch Manual for you to browse too.

Even More Unobtrusive Javascript, Semantic XHTML, CSS, Accessibility and Web Standards Goodness

A snapshot of the new and improved features for Scooch v1.0:

• Richly functional Scooch homepage: The new application index includes slide show summaries or thumbnails displayed by date, title or rating. Also includes a tags list or tag cloud (your choice) and Scooch bookmarks from around the web you can add and remove.
• Live search: Goggles live search, our new rapid search plug-in is included free. Search Scooch shows live with a word or phrase and watch the list display.
• Rel-tags: Slide show tagging with rel-tag Microformat aggregated on the index in a tag list or a cloud.
• Comments: Enable comments if you wish with emoticons and a comments RSS feed.
• Multiple RSS feeds: Scooch now gives you subscription feeds for all new slide shows published (just like a blog), individual slide shows (for new slide notifications) and slide show comments.
• Ratings: Allow users to rate your slide shows using hReview Microformat.
• Customised slide shows: Display a minimalist version or a full fat version with the date, description and author displayed on the page (it is used in the meta tags regardless) and enable slide ratings, comments, emoticons - all optional when you create a slide show.
• Customised everything: The new admin user settings allow you so much flexibility it would be hard to list here. See the new Scooch Manual user settings page for details.
• Multiple image formats: Scooch now accepts JPG's, PNG's, GIF's and produces superb resolution thumbnails from all of them.
• Even simpler admin: An integrated admin menu on the homepage allows you access to all the features including the ability to add a new show, edit a show, delete comments, delete a show, re-issue all shows (useful if you change the template), manage your bookmarks and admin user settings.
• Easy editing and recycling for any site: Scooch is built for you to edit, re-use and recycle. We've included a detailed manual to help you. Install it and plug simple data ojects in to your existing homepage to display your slide shows. Easy-peasy!

Scooch has been manually checked again against the WCAG and the ATAG from the W3C. That means it complies with international policies and legislation around accessibility including the UK DDA 2005

No Browser Plug-ins, No Flash, No Database

Scooch still doesn't need browser plug-ins or a database to deliver all this goodness. It's accessible to use and to administer and installation is a breeze. All you need to do is insert your own web site URI, upload, CHMOD the directories and it just works.

Free for Non Commercial Use

That's right compadres, Scooch is free for personal and charitable / educational use. For a commercial license here is a small fee of £25 but we throw in installation support for that too.

An Invitation to Feed Forward and Feedback

We're interested in where and how you use Scooch. Share your stories with us. There are also plans afoot for more new features and some Scooch community tools to share and broadcast your slide shows. Let us know what you think and contact us via the Scooch web site contact form with any ideas that rebound from your experiences - we'd love to hear them.

Thanks for all your useful feedback and kind comments in posts and articles about Scooch. It's very much appreciated. For those of you who may be interested, there is also a formal Scooch press release to cast your eyes over.

Onwards to Scooch v1.0!

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