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Redesigns Abound

Hot on the heels of Dou­glas Bowman’s redesign of Adap­tive Path, the imitable Dan Ceder­holm has com­pleted his lat­est project, redesign­ing Inc.com (his studio’s site has also received a facelift). The four sites linked above are not just ter­rific exam­ples of design, but all make use of valid XHTML and CSS.

With all these great exam­ples tak­ing up your time, you may not have noticed the few minor tweaks made to this site: the pri­mary nav­i­ga­tion now resides in its own UI ele­ment (the bar under­neath the header), and fea­tures sub­tle hover effects (all CSS, of course); the style switcher has been sim­pli­fied by remov­ing the two exper­i­men­tal styles (this has also decreased page-load times a bit); and finally, I’ve livened up the header just a lit­tle, bor­row­ing one of the ele­ments from this site’s logo (the globe). Of course, all the changes have been trans­lated to each of the alter­nate styles.

I’m still not done (is a designer ever really done?), so you may have to reload the page and/or stylesheets over the next few days/weeks if things look squir­relly. I have to do some­thing to make myself feel bet­ter after spend­ing so much time look­ing at Doug and Dan’s per­sonal sites–it’s good to have the bar raised every once in a while.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, July 18th, 2003.

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One comment on “Redesigns Abound”

  1. Posted by Daniel on Monday, July 21st, 2003.

    Looks splen­did. I’m a lit­tle gun-shy about the redesign I’m con­tem­plat­ing. It’s going to end up being a fairly mon­u­men­tal affair, I think. With great spots like yours along the way, though, it’s that much lit­tle bit eas­ier. To be quite hon­est, I pre­fer your site to Zeldman’s, from a com­pletely aes­thetic, visual design per­spec­tive. Some­thing about the side­bar being on the left throws me off.