A few weeks ago I mentioned that I would be rewriting the Journalong application complete with a new front end that would be more simplistic. I was hoping to do away with the current look of the journal entry page by trying to re-design it. After a few of getting nowhere I've decided to throw in the towel in on the facelift to Journalong. It's given me too many things to think about regarding the user interface. Basically, I'm over complicating a simple thing.

I'm hoping in the next couple of weeks to push the rewritten version of Journalong to Heroku without the facelift. There will be no change to the functionality of the site, there will however be one immediate change that will be visible on the site.

I'm going to do away with the blog for the website. As a replacement for communicating with Journalong users I'm going to create a newsletter. Not only will it be used for notifying users of updates to Journalong but there will be tips and stories from users of Journalong.

The problem with the blog. It's almost impossible to determine which of your customers are reading your blog. Other than subscribing to Feedburner, or a similar service, there's no way to determine how many people are actively subscribed to your blog and interested in using Journalong.

With a newsletter I'll have more of an idea about who's interested in Journalong. I can monitor the number of people who are subscribed and determine how many are actually Journalong customers and how many aren't.

Once this is done, I'll be working on a number of new features that will make Journalong even easier to use. I hope you can all bear with me for the next few weeks. Good things are coming, I promise.