Good morning all. I know it’s only just past 10 a.m. and I’ve only been up a little bit but hopefully you’ll forgive me because I was up until nearly three doing and uploading the re-designed site. I still feel a little shell-shocked but I hope the new look & feel and navigation etc. is worth it. Time will tell.

I would like to hear feedback on the site, particularly from those of you who regularly visit the site. Thanks in advance. The features I mentioned which aren’t up yet and questions for the help menu will be coming soon. Also little bits and bobs will be appearing, particularly in the sidebars which I’m going to use as little info areas.

Now I’m off to eat my toast and start the long chain of coffees which I may have today. The plan is to get some work done on the help page and possibly get the eBay browsing pages done.

R!

There’s no doubt, if you’ve visited the site before today, that you’ll notice the design has changed. You might also notice the previous blog entries aren’t here either. I’ve been thinking about re-populating all the other blog entries but am not sure if that’s worthwhile or not. Obviously now is the time to speak up and email me if you really want to see the previous blog entries but I suspect that demand won’t be that great so we’ll leave that thought in the pending file for now.

For those of you who didn’t read the previous blog entries I’ll summarise. Most of the entries concerned statistics and web design news, mainly because the site has only really been functioning fully (ie. with Land Rovers in it) since the end of April 2008. Since then I’ve been posting entries such as having 317 visitors in the first 30 days, being 4th in a search result powered by Google, some of the search terms that have found the site (rangrover anyone?), commenting on how many people find the site through natural search and the work I did towards achieving that plus a virtually continuous plea to find Land Rovers that people are selling.

There was an entry about how and why this site differs from the rest (eBay, AutoTrader et al) but that can be very easily covered in three words ‘the personal touch’. No ‘ooers!’ please.

The only other blog entry of note, besides the boring ones explaining what a pain forms are, the new computer and other entries which I’m clearly glossing over or leaving out; is the one quoted below which I’ll put in because I think the subject is still recent enough.

On my personal site www.isemann.co.uk my latest blog entry has some interesting survey results (not Land Rover related) gleaned from a survey by YouGov about what people in the UK and the USA think about various issues. It's not the most mind-blowing stuff, more like mmmm.. kind of stuff but of some interest never the less. If you want to check it out just use the link above to go to the site.

All that’s left to say is welcome, enjoy the new look and feel of the site. I hope it’s better than the old one and all feedback is very welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,

R!