Today I’m officially launching the new design for this site. I’ve done all the work on my own this time, including the design and integration into Wordpress from the ground up. I feel more comfortable about the code, and was able to get rid of some major issues the old design was having. I spent a lot of time on making this new design look extremely clean, and hopefully be more efficient and faster. If you’re reading this from our RSS feed, stop by and see the new look.

I still have a laundry list of things to do, so you’ll see parts of the site tweaked a little bit over the next few days…but the majority is done. If you do happen to see any issues or bugs, please let me know. The biggest issue that has been resolved is where pages were just showing up as 404 not found. I’m sure I was losing a ton of pageviews and visitors because of it…either way, it’s a thing of the past.

The other important aspect of this redesign is a re-branding of this site and what it’s about. This is something that you’ll see more of over the next couple weeks. Previously the slogan for the site had been “Topics for entrepreneurs, and my miscellaneous ramblings”. This has now been changed to “Cars, business, ramblings, and the rest of my life”. Previously I was really trying to target the site towards entrepreneurs, with the mindset that I was writing more specifically about topics that young entrepreneurs would like. That won’t change much in a sense, but the topics will be shifted somewhat.

The topics I discuss will still be targeted towards bright, young, ambitious people. There will be a larger footprint in the automotive category. Cars, technology, and business have always been my true passion, and I hope to convey that on this blog. You’ll soon see a revamp in the categories on the site which help convey this shift. On top of that, posts now utilize tags, so you’ll be able to find similar content with that so you don’t have to necessarily rely on something as high level as categories if you don’t want.

The other thing you’ll notice over the next couple weeks is a re-branding name change on the site. I previously used my entire name, DavidPitlyuk.com to reference the site. Unfortunately, my last name isn’t so easy to spell, and a while back I mirrored the domain DavePit.com to this site. Now I will officially be re-branding the site to be named DavePit.com. It’s easy to remember, shorter, and flows better. DavidPitlyuk.com will continue to work, but will soon redirect to DavePit.com.

One of the other cool things that I’ve added to the sidebar is a “Top Commentators” box which shows up on all pages of the site. This will show the people with the highest comments over a period of time. If that user has a link to their website, their name will link to it, and I will not be putting any sort of nofollow on it. I hope this encourages some of you to voice your opinions and comment on posts more often.

As always, I welcome all comments, suggestions, praises, and criticism. Here’s to an entirely new chapter!