Welcome back to BeyondSims! Following a short maintenance break we are back with a fresh, new design and plenty of new features for our readers to enjoy.

Please let us know your thoughts on social media or in the comments and without further ado, let’s dig in and explore some of the new features that have arrived with the latest version of our website!

Modern Responsive Design

One of the most obvious changes to the site is our new design! Featuring a new colour scheme, large image slider and unique pages for specific content, it’s better than ever. Like our previous design, it’s also “responsive” which means it will adjust to any sized screen whether you’re reading on your phone, tablet or computer. This new design is faster and provides deeper customisation for us, enabling new content to be shared on the site.

Want to access the site quickly on your iOS devices? Add BeyondSims.com to your home screen and you’ll instantly be able to access our mobile site.

Rating System

A new feature which I am in love with is our rating system. We are now able to give a detailed breakdown when we review content and the system will automatically generate a review score. It’s sleek and fun to watch as it animates and displays the ratings. A fun part of the rating system is that you can also share your rating and it will display the average user score!

We have applied to the new rating system to reviews from The Sims 4 base game onwards and plan to continue going back in time and adding the updated review scores to older content.

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Like/Dislike System

You can now rate content on the BeyondSims website. If you like an article, you can give it a thumbs up. If you dislike it, you can give it a thumbs down. Alternatively, you can also report anything on the website by hitting the report button.

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Sticky Menu

Need to get to the main menu quickly? When you scroll down, the main menu will now “stick” to the top of the screen so you can easily access other areas of the website without having to scroll all of the way to the top of the page! Search has also been embedded into the menu navigation, so you can easily search for content of interest.

Social Sharing

It’s now easier than ever to share posts and pages on BeyondSims to your favourite social networking websites. Under posts, you can now click on the share button and select from a variety of social networks.