Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced

The winner of the contest is Alex Bendiken. He will receive a new laptop as well as bragging rights as the creator of the new look of Slashdot. You can see his winning design in a near complete form now. Feel free to comment on any compatibility issues. We plan to take this live in the next few days. There will undoubtedly be a few minor glitches, but please submit bug reports and we'll sort it out as fast as possible. Also congratulations to Peter Lada, our runner up. He gets $250 credit at ThinkGeek. Thanks to everyone who participated- it was a lot of fun.

Comments

not that pretty..

[nuzak]

But at least it's using CSS throughout, so it can be customized more easily. The current CSS use is quite haphazard, so while this new look isn't very impressive on the surface, it's a vast improvement underneath.

Re:New, harder to read version

[JMemmert]

*chuckles* Quite the contrary. Or maybe not.
It seems that people have a much harder time reading sans-serif fonts on paper than serif fonts. On the computer screen, however, the opposite applies.
Here's a study about it http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt6/html-email-fonts.htm (Google is your friend).
And this is a quote from the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif#Usage:
"The coarse resolution of computer screens has caused a reassessment of the role of serifs in readability, with a large percentage of web pages employing sans-serif type for body text. Fonts with hinting information, anti-aliased rendering and the ClearType rendering technology has partially mitigated these concerns, yet the basic problem of coarse resolution--typically 100 pixels per inch or less--continues to impose strict limitations on readability and legibility on-screen." And yes, in the end, it boils down to personal preferences.

Re:A small Criticism

[gregbains]

I'm using Firefox 1.5 up to date and clicking the triangles for me opens and closes sections.

Re:Where?

[mizhi]

Ok, I give up. Where's the collapsable sections??

You have to click the section headers (don't click the Vendors link). It doesn't give you a very good indication that there's any sort of functionality hooked into those headers.

Re:Light mode?

[idonthack]

Don't worry. The way those prefrences work is by removing stylesheets. The contest is to redesign the stylesheets. You won't be affected because you won't load them anyways.

Turn in Slacker Credentials at the Door

[bill_mcgonigle]

absofuckinglutely stupid unless you're blind and using a screen reader

You greatly underestimate how much like Work Slashdot looks in an 80x25 terminal with amber or green on black text.