My blog redesign at last!

Back in September 2008 I decided to redesign and update my blog. Lack of inspiration and time meant that it took me more than 5 months to do it!

The reason I wanted to update my blog design was that in terms of my personal development online, I had changed my focus and my views quite a lot. I used to ignore social media marketing till last year. I was focusing solely on traditional organic search and traditional content building for most of my web sites.

The beginning of this year saw a major shift in my approach to my online presence and that of my online properties. First of all, even though I have had my twitter account for quite some time, I started posting regular tweets more often starting January of this year. I was following more people and was being followed more. I installed Tweet Deck which changed the way I tweeted.

Then I started building up my profile on LinkedIn, eCademy and also started using Technorati, Digg, Stumble and Delicious. Mind you, I had all these profiles for years now but never used them actively.

So with this shift in my online behavior, I decided I finally found the focus for my personal blog. I knew what I what I wanted to write, which would be related to small businesses, online entrepreneurship and related stuff. I will not be writing any more movie or gadget reviews on this blog because I have a dedicated website for such posts.

The choice for this new layout and the color scheme might surprise some of my readers. Since the ideal reader would be a small business owner looking for some information on issues related to running a small business, the dark color palate and the “tech” look and feel might throw off some of them. However, I wanted the design of my personal website to be closer to my likes and the kind of designs that I like.

I hope you like the new site design. Of course I will be tweaking it and try to improve it in the coming weeks. Please drop me a comment on what you think of this design.