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Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest Update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stay-tuned-to-this-channel-for-more-details dept.

A few weeks back I announced that Slashdot was throwing open its design to the readers. An individual will win a Laptop, and hopefully we'll all win a Slashdot design that looks good. My Journal Entries have chronicled dozens of entries since the contest began, commenting on many of them. Today I share with you 3 of my favorites. These aren't necessarily "Finalists" but I think these are some of the strongest entries. First up is Michael Johnson's design, second is Jason Porritt's entry, and third is a design from Peter Lada. The contest will end around the middle of next week. Entries can be sent to redesign at CmdrTaco.net. Read my journal for extensive commentary on the many entries, to see what stuff has been working and what stuff hasn't.

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  1. Re:Slashdot slashdots Slashdot! by consonant · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's just wrong, man. Take your pick from these:

    1. How many dots would a slashdot slash, if a slashdot could slash dots?

    2. How many slashes would a slashdot dot, if a slashdot could dot slashes?

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  2. One major visual design flaw by AmicoToni · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Johnson's design is visually appealing, but has a major, and I say major flaw. Every designer knows that the eye tends to be captured by curved lines, and that is routinely exploited to draw the attention of the observer towards the product. Johnson's design has some fluid curved lines that draw the eye towards the top left corner, where there is absolutely nothing! The eye then wanders off the page, giving to the page an unpleasant "void" feeling. The attention level drops, and the viewer then instinctively moves on, looking for another, more interesting page.

  3. Re:Parent poster is right by Kjella · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Disclaimer: I design.

    So you said, and I saw two AC at 0 flaming your own designs. I thought they were trolling, but well... if you would design something similar if you got "free reigns", then I'm sorry to say I agree with them. I don't like them at least, YMMV. However, I do agree that this contest is almost like Tom Sawyer making people paint the fence, because it's basicly the same fence afterwards.

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  4. Re:Great attempts, but hamstrung by client by Coryoth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Taco is accepting designs that use other colours. I quite like this design in blue by Lukasz Lukasiewicz. Taco just favour thins that have more links with the original design, and thus better continuity for Slashdot in general.

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  5. Re:Not too bad..... by Azar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you can unzip a file you can install firefox... and what IT department would complain about a user using firefox?

    I envy you. While yes, I can "unzip a file", I cannot download it in the first place. "Freeware and software downloads" are caught by our web filter. Firefox, Opera, even some useful development tools are forbidden (out of general policy, not on the software's individual merits). It's all rather draconian, especially since most of the time the software I'm attempting to download is something to help me with my job (a visual diff program, CVS client, etc).

    Anything that the IT department doesn't control is "off limits". Call it idiocy, call it a Microsoft-centric world, but there are many large corporation IT departments that scowl at anything open source / free / non-Microsoft. It's out of their realm of expertise and therefore "scary and unknown".