The re-designed London for Free site is now live.

After spending every weekend this year – and many evenings – working away at it, it feels strange to suddenly not have to write content, design pages and fix bugs.

The good news is that after only 2 days since it was launched, I am already seeing double the amount of revenue from Google Adsense. Very encouraging.

There are still one or two bugs left to fix – in particular, the ajax form that worked so well on my testing server now fails to work on the “production” one unless I disable ajax from it completely. The code is exactly the same – but the hosting companies are different. So there’s another weekend’s work lined up, trying to figure out what’s wrong.

I already have a list of things to add to the site for phase 2, but I’m going to take a break from developing it further for a few months or so.

Apart from trying to fix the bugs and monitoring / tweaking the affiliate adverts to see the effect on revenue.

More later on the impact of the re-design on advertising revenue and traffic – I need to give it a few weeks to build up some stats.