New Website Design on the Way

Just a "heads up" for those of you who visit the site rather than read 'Fund my Mutual Fund' via email or RSS feed/reader; we'll be rolling out a quite substantial re-design of the website sometime in the next 7 to 14 days. By "quite substantial" I imply you will probably think you are on the wrong website.

When I first started this "home on the internets" a year and a half ago, I spent a few days reading about how blogs work and what was the easiest platform for a non techie person to begin with, and then plunged in. Within a few days I realized I wanted to add a lot of things and needed a lot more space so I grabbed the current template from a site who redesigns Blogger websites, and then started 'plugging and playing' to add a lot of the content within the sidebars (left and right). And basically from that point I have done almost nothing in terms of website improvement. Filling the content section is job #1, and a full time endeavor in and of itself.

But this is now at the point there is a sometimes overwhelming amount of content in the right and left margins, and certainly for first time visitors I imagine it feels like a tangled jungle to sift through. So the new look should help to mitigate this, and give a more sleek and easy to use navigation - while giving us the ability to retain the majority of the information currently sitting in the margins. With the help of a professional hand we're working through the re-design... which will come with the added bonus of the deletion of the garish color scheme. (green on blue on tan - you'll always have a place in my heart)

Once we're up and running with the new design, feel free to send feedback on the look and more important the functionality.

Tomorrow evening, I'll be posting a brand new pledge sheet for future investors, that we've mothballed for the past half year or so as the market served to dramatically puncture investors portfolios. Remember, there is an end game to this website (beautifully designed as it will be) [Jan 7, 2008: Reader "Pledges" Toward Mutual Fund Launch] and that's to put a stake down in the investment world and launch "the people's fund" ;) After the fall and early winter carnage I would like to see take a new snapshot of where things stand in terms of momentum towards the $7M goal. More tomorrow....