I’ve been blogging on dutchproblogger.com for five months now. I’m delighted by the amount of comments and inspiring discussions, yet I’m not completely satisfied about a couple of things:

• Too personal - although this is my personal blog, I still want to offer more information that is relevant for every reader. Thus I’ll post more blog tips and less personal stories. Moreover, I’ve highlighted the last blog tip by featuring it on the frontpage
• The frequency of posts - sometimes I wrote two posts a day, yet there were also weeks that nothing was published. I’ve decided to look for a standard frequency and hereby promise to post two blog tips each week.

I took these two changes in account and added the ebook and blog conference I’m working on. These developments called for a new and more professional design.

A new design

Hope I didn’t freak you out with launching this new design all of a sudden. I wasn’t completely satisfied with the old one, as it felt I was trying too hard with all the purple and yellow. During a bright moment, I decided to leave the designing to the designers and start focusing on the content. So when I met Odilo Girod at the “Don’t Do it Yourself” days - an agreement on making a new design was made quickly. Here’s the result: unconventional, a bit on the edge, and uber stylish.

From now on, this blog will be a place where I post unconventional and daring blogging tips you surely haven’t read on other blogs before - plus some personal stuff. I hope it will inspire you and I’m looking forward to your comments, criticism, and ideas.

Thanks to Anne Helmond, Peter Evers, Polle de Maagt, Jerry Houtman, Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Patrick de Laive, Stephan Okhuijsen and Renato Valdés Olmos for reviewing the new design.

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