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byHeliologue ( 883808 ) writes:
If Slashdot is ugly (and it is), why are so many of its "characteristic" elements supposed to be retained? One of the first things I'd do in a redesign is drop the #006666. And why not let users submit new icon packs? Once again, the icons currently in use are pretty horrendous, and yet the criterion is "Make it look pretty while still using our shitty gifs.
So let's see: The redesign has to keep the same title font, the same top-left curve, and the same green; it must have white content areas, becaus
byCmdrTaco (1) * writes:
I guess what I'm expecting is creativity. Personally I think that a few boundaries forces me to be more creative. But clearly you are far more cynical, and therefore I'm guessing I won't be seeing an entry from you :)
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Its hard to be creative when you are shackled by arbitrary constraints on your part. Especially regarding the slashdot 'color', which is so horribly ugly and painful, I dont think there is anybody besides yourself that would want to keep it. It is probably the number one thing that people would want to change. The reason slashdot is popular is not because of its graphic design or the editorial quality, but in spite of it.
Seriously Taco, wake up. If you are bounding entries to slashdot's current scheme,
by88NoSoup4U88 ( 721233 ) writes:
Er.. Almost all -commercial- creativity is limited by arbitrary restraints: Be it webdesign, gamedesign, or even that weird painter-dude that keeps re-copying his previous works because they sold.
Keeping the color (which I personally 'identify' Slashdot with) isn't one of the worst restraints one could get.
This site needs a complete overhaul, unless you want to be the only site on the Internet that looks like it was designed in 1998.
Damn, I just think I read a Pimp-my-Slashdot request: Isn't it a plus
bysquaretorus ( 459130 ) writes:
here here on the phone point. I almost exclusively read /. on the train on my xda now - and it SUCKS to lose so much control over how I see it because a little work has been skipped in sorting the CSS to feed handhelds nicely.
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