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I started martinfowler.com back in 2000, now its grown to around 3.5 million words in 500 pages, getting about 200,000 page views a month. One problem with the site is that it looks retro even for 2000 and seriously needs some cosmetic surgery. Another is that it’s not easy to browse to find useful articles.

So now the dsl book (which weighs in at 1.2 million words) is pretty much done with, I need to give martinfowler.com some love in these (and some other) departments. So I’m currently working on a nicer look for the website. I’ve also decided to write a series of “guide pages” - these are pages devoted to a single topic (such as agile software development) that highlight which pages on my website are likely to be useful on that topic.

I have these mocked up now to a point where I’m reasonably happy with them. Now the task is to apply these changes to the current website. My task is eased to some degree by the fact that all the HTML pages are generated from XML sources, but even so it will take some time to ensure everything looks reasonable. I also have a lot of travels coming up in the next few months, so I’m not predicting any delivery dates.