Our brand-new hotness
As Steve Jobs would say, "boom." Download Squad readers with keen eyes have taken notice; we've gotten our first full redesign in our history.It's green, it's hot and we luvs it. You can quickly jump to points of interest from the top of the page, we got rid of some nagging limitations of our original design and, just for kicks, we threw the extra $10 for the new logo. Maybe AOL read Adam's "So you wanna be a web developer?" post, ya think?
In all seriousness, big thanks to Erik and Victor who managed to make this all happen. We really hope you love our new design just as much as we do, so tell us what you think!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
DaKingsta said 9:57PM on 10-29-2008
I think you guys did a great job with it! The sidebar is soooo much easier to read!
The only thing I'm not too big on is the funky header with the bars.
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DaKingsta said 10:33PM on 10-29-2008
Oh, and the link to Erik is broken (missing an "i" in twitter)
Brent Schmidt said 10:06PM on 10-29-2008
Really enjoy the new layout... and the icon thingy in the web addy... brain fart right now for the actual name, lol. A lot easier on the eyes and just... clean. Good job guys.
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Stephen.4 said 10:07PM on 10-29-2008
Love it, it badly needed updated.
Looks a bit like TUAW's new layout though, the top piece at least with the arrows. Not sure if they were there before, but did you guys get the same people to do it? (With the hot post at the top, and the side bar...)
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Mark said 10:08PM on 10-29-2008
I like it, but what happened to the games link?
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Nick Munson said 10:19PM on 10-29-2008
At first, it caught me by surprise. Now, though, I'm starting to like it.
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Mysterius said 1:11AM on 10-30-2008
I was caught off guard, too, but when I realized this was a redesign, I felt excited, so it must be good. :)
Keith Dsouza said 12:32AM on 10-30-2008
Nice Redesign, better navigation in the sidebar.
However the green, well looks odd on a white background for the main post area, could do with a change.
Other than that excellent re-design.
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kamron_1 said 10:24PM on 10-29-2008
Very nicely done, and serving a lot of information without looking too busy.
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ntw1103 said 10:26PM on 10-29-2008
haha, I saw the change, and the first thing I did was go the search box and typed: "WAHHHHHH what happened to the layout!!!!!!!" nothing came up.
I thought that was kinda strange, a new design and no mention of it in any posts... so I searched the same term over and over and over again, (so that if someone looks up top searches.....)
I really like the layout on the right side, it is a lot better, I am not sure about the green though....
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Chris Thomson said 10:27PM on 10-29-2008
The new design looks fantastic! One question: has the RSS header tag been removed because of scrapers (I noticed the big "rss terms" section at the bottom of the feed), or just because it was forgotten? :)
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James said 10:33PM on 10-29-2008
Nice, but the article title font sucks - really hard to read serif fonts on screen and it jars with the content font
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Garth Braithwaite said 11:33PM on 10-29-2008
Congrats, looks great.
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Zach said 5:59AM on 10-30-2008
I like the design, but your new logo looks like a messed up rss icon. Otherwise it is a great makeover.
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chrisaroz said 10:34PM on 10-29-2008
Very nice.
I have to admit though, the very first thing I did was look around to see who the "sponsor" was that paid to take over for a day...
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Brian Waterman said 10:35PM on 10-29-2008
I like it. Engadget and other Weblogs, Inc. sites should all opt for redesigns as well.
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Ivan said 10:36PM on 10-29-2008
Looks great guys. May want to recheck the "padding-right" on your image in this post though, the text is right on the image, which is a little bit hard to separate visually.
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kingkool68 said 10:37PM on 10-29-2008
Downloadsquad is teh hotness!
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Lawrence said 10:53PM on 10-29-2008
Everything is great!!!
Well, my comment is the 'green' background colour. It would be better if the colour was a little bit dark green colour. So your white main context can be contrasted out. (Maybe I am just being to picky on colours.....)
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Nirmal said 11:15PM on 10-29-2008
Superb redesign, I was wondering why DS was not going for a redesign like many other top blogs did recently.
Great work guys.
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