Three months ago, when we revealed the new look monthly format of the print version of British Journal of Photography, I promised we would work on our website next, which we first launched in 1997, but which hasn’t had any major changes in several years now.

Now we’ve finished, I hope you'll like what we’ve done. There’s been a lot of back end work, but what you see is now is a complete redesign that better reflects our aims and values, and which should be better to navigate and a hell of a lot easier on the eye.

The thinking behind the change of format for the magazine came from our discussions about the relative merits of print and web, and the fact that with more than 100,000 people visiting us online each month, the news oriented focus of a weekly didn’t make sense anymore.

Going monthly has been a massive success, resulting in a huge increase to our readership, and we are very optimistic that we can welcome many more people to our website. To be honest, anything would have been an improvement on our previous site, which hadn’t changed much in seven years (and a lot has changed online in that time). But more than that, we think we genuinely have something different to offer from other online photography magazines.

Whereas the staff on most other magazines work across more than one title, our team of editors are dedicated fulltime to BJP, and we bring the same exacting standards and enthusiasm to our online content as we do to our print version. So, while many sites simply cut-and-paste press releases, we have been at the forefront in campaigning on issues like the Digital Economy Bill and Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, and we take a proper investigative approach to news.

We will be adding extra daily content to the site from now on, including Q&As with photographers as well as slideshows previewing shows and festivals, along with video.

We've created multiple ways to navigate around the site. You can use the menu at the top of the page, of course, or type into the search box at the top right. But you can also hover over the grid of images on the homepage and click through to articles, for example, or browse the latest content via the daily section or vists the most popular articles.

If you are looking for specific types of articles, we've made that much easier too. Simply check the different sections on our homepage, try out our popular topics tags, or type a subject into our search and you'llfind we've tagged every article to help you find the articles you're most interested in.

For the launch, we’ve made everything available to see, but in the future we will restrict access to the latest content that appears in print to subscribers. Take some time to look around the site and please do give me feedback on what we’ve done (you can also now comment on any of the individual articles at the bottom of the page), any errors you come across, and any thoughts you have about what we should add or improve.