This past weekend we launched the redesign of our website webdev2.0. With the new design we wanted to address certain issues and improve upon the existing design. We kept the same color palette and used a very similar layout.

First off we wanted better social networking integration. We put the links to Twitter, Facebook, RSS Feed, and newsletter in the header and footer so it would show up on every page and easy for our readers. We also have the Feedburner reader count near the title of every page. On the website profile pages we used the SexyBookmarks plug-in for WordPress and each page has a Facebook fan box and Twitter widget.

The second issue we wanted to address was placement of ads. We wanted consistent placement that was above the fold, but we didn’t want them to be overly intrusive. We’ve also reduced the number of ads to 3 per page.

We wanted to show more competitors for each site. We now show 9 instead of 3.

For the front page, we wanted to highlight the highest rated sites. On the previous site it was in the sidebar on the individual pages. We think promotion to the front page will showcase the highest rated sites better and it should get more views on that page.

We’ve also included our latest blog posts in the footer of every page and we hope to use that feature of the site more often. In the old site it was mostly hidden away.

So how did we do? Do you like the new design? What could we do to improve the site? Take a look at the site and let us know. We look forward to hearing from you.