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Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-need-me-any-more dept.

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.

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  1. I just redesigned my house. by yagu · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I just re-designed my house. It's was gray, but is now slightly darker gray. I've widened the white trim around the windows and porch railings a bit. And, I added a remote keypad for my automatic garage door opener.

    Seriously, I can take the new page, put it as a 50% transparent layer under the old slashdot, and it comes close to identical. Is there something more under the covers?

    Now maybe we can get on to the less important stuff like fixing the mod system. (Which will now demonstrate its fickle nature by modding me to -1.)

    (I love slashdot. I think it is one of the most important forums on the internet. This re-design seems very similar to the old design... I guess it wasn't intended to be a makeover.)

  2. No rounded corners? by hthite · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is just wrong! Are we going back in time? When the entire world is going to Web 2.0 = rounded corners?

    Seriously speaking, I love the new font and the blockquote... Better than the perma italics. Only the new design looks a little too much spaced out for my taste.

    Oh and could someone please tell me why we are having this redesign? I don't see a vast difference as such!

  3. Missing "Slashdot" - big bug? by gus+goose · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, I am somewhat surprised. I use Firefox 1.5.0.3, and it does not show the "Slashdot" "News for nerds" in the linked "preview".

    I guess /. is going under cover. I get a link if I over over where the /. title should be.

    Go figure...

    gus

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  4. I cut myself on the new slashdot by binarybum · · Score: 1, Redundant

    looks, well, a hell of a lot like the "old" slashdot without the safety rounded corners.

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  5. why even change by hsmith · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if you aren't going to "mix it up" and go for something differnet. It looks exactly like /. in its current form. big deal.

  6. Different by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We fear change

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