Scottsdale.tips started as a set of guides for two readers, the first-time visitor and the new resident, and the guides are still the centre of it. This autumn the site grew a few things around them, and this post is where the changes get written down from now on.
A blog, beside the guides
The guides in Valley Notes are written to last: where to stay, which trail to walk in which month, how to survive July. They get revised, not dated. The blog is the other kind of writing: what opened this week, what changed, what is on this month, and what is new on the site. A post here carries a date and stays as it was.
An account, and a weekly email
Signing in with an email address, Google or Apple gives you an account and a choice of emails: a weekly letter, and the events one. Four quick questions put you on a track, visiting or living here, and the site uses the answer to suggest the guides that fit. Nothing about you is sold or shared, and the whole account can be exported or deleted from its page; the disclosure says exactly what is collected.
Giveaways
The giveaways page lists what is on: an entry is one ticket, the draw is random and final, and the winners are told by email.
The map
The map draws the whole Greater Scottsdale Area on one sheet, Scottsdale at its centre and the places around it that visitors treat as one city: east Phoenix to downtown, northern Tempe, northwest Mesa, Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills, Cave Creek and Carefree out to Bartlett Lake.
More of these as the site changes. If something here is wrong or missing, the about page says how to reach the editor.