Moved Site: United Domain

After 3 years of blogging on weblogs.asp.net, I’ve made the big decision to move out.

In the very beginning, I was honored to be able to blog there, but as years went by and blogging became more and more mainstream, I felt the urge to write under my own domain.

I’m convinced this has several benefits. First of all, I have total control of the look and feel of the site, without having to hack around too much. I can easily make a change whenever I want to. The other benefit is more a matter of credibility. It’s possible to get credibility from content and actions, but a feeling of professionalism and maturity is also important. And that’s exactly what I hope to achieve by writing under my own domain.

I’ll be moving some of the content over the next few days, some nice gems collected over the years. After that, it’ll be all fresh new subjects! I don’t think I’ll be getting that much traffic in the beginning, but I aim to increase it over time when more and more quality content gets added.

Together with the move, I switched to a new design, inspired by Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror and the Fluid Solution template from Arcsin. I modified it to include Technorati and Digg links, switched the layout from three columns to two, moved the navigation over, added nice titles and some minor design changes.

Welcome to old readers who followed me, and to all new readers! Be sure to add cumps.be to your favorites!