Over the past year cycling websites like Podium Insight and Velonews have gone through major face lifts. Even Cyclingnews tried to get in on it with bigger and more centrally placed ads. Now I too am getting on the different is better bandwagon with the new and improved PaulMach.com 2.0.

So what's different? Well, obviously a simpler and more traditional layout. This should please all the readers that think if it doesn't look like a blogger site than it looks weird.

Also, the site should be faster. Recent research by Microsoft was shown that if the pages takes just a half second longer to load, people get frustrated. The old site, well sometimes it was really slow so I rewrote the whole back end to fix some issues. Hopefully it works.

The most important change is the black background. You see, my wife prefers sites with black backgrounds and I prefer white backgrounds. This is our compromise and I think it saved our marriage.

As always, let me know if you see any weirdness.