I finally completed a major change to my blog about a week ago. The primary change was to make my home page more focused on my recently released free 10 day course on how to create an income generating website.

I’ve been meaning to finish the free course since last year’s blog world (wow I’m slow) but because I planned to release the course for free other income producing projects kept getting in the way. I finally had some time in late July and early August to finish the course and I’m very pleased with what I was able to put together.

Check Out My Free 10 Day Course Here

Why Did I Make This Change?

The free course I put together teaches essential information that I wish I knew when I first got started trying to make money online so this free course was designed to give a step by step overview of how to make money with websites with 10 separate daily lessons. Rather than relying on my readers to come to my blog and not know where to go, I wanted them to start with the fundamentals first.

How Did I Make The Change?

In WordPress you can create pages and set one as the “front page” and another as the “posts page” if you set a WordPress page as the front page you’ll get a WordPress page instead of a list of recent blog posts. Then if you set the posts page as a newly created blank page called “Blog” your new blog page will then look like mine: MakeMoneyontheInternet.com/blog but it won’t affect the permalink structure of your existing URL’s.

Here’s What Else I Changed:

One Other Home Page Change:

On the home page I also provide three small graphical links to my blog, my podcast and my story because I didn’t want the home page of my blog to just be a squeeze page / email opt in alone:

That’s why I also left the sidebar on the home page as well with links to my popular posts etc. I don’t want new readers to think that I’m just trying to get them into my free course. I’m confident if they come through to the blog, listen to my podcast or do anything else they’d be interested in joining my free course then so that’s why I set up the design of the home page the way I did.

Podcast Page Change:

I changed my podcast page using PHP if conditional statements so that when someone goes to MakeMoneyontheInternet.com/podcast it’s not just an archive category listing of all my recent podcasts and instead it provides a few options to subscribe to the podcast and explains why I’m doing the podcast etc.

Check out the new podcast page

What Do You Think Of The New Design?

I made several changes and partly why I haven’t published any new blog posts in over two weeks is because I was busy using my normal blog time to focus on writing free content for the course. Check out the new home page, the podcast page and then let me know what you think of the new design in the comments below.