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Sidebar Redesign: Contest Results

The results are in for my Side­bar Redesign Con­test.

Although the response was a lit­tle under whelm­ing, I like a lot about each of the three sub­mis­sions (a bonus for each designer: there are three prizes, so every­one wins :-) and have decided to incor­po­rate parts of each into the side­bar of this site (each win­ner will get a men­tion in the source of the side­bar, and the Grand Prize win­ner will get a link in the sidebar).

With­out fur­ther ado, I proudly present:

• 1st Place (Grand Prize) | Brad Smith ( home­page / view entry )
  Brad’s design is clean, and (to me) feels like it adds just what I felt the side­bar was miss­ing. More visual sep­a­ra­tion for the sec­tion head­ings, as well as the inden­ta­tion for each list item, adds struc­ture to the side­bar. The Recent Com­ments sec­tion is also nicely done.
• 1st Run­ner Up | Kjell Olsen ( home­page / view entry )
  Kjell’s entry is a mostly behind-the-scenes rework­ing of the side­bar con­tent, allow­ing con­trol of each sec­tion via Mov­able­Type. I really, really like the way this is put together — this is top-notch in my book.
• 2nd Run­ner Up | Hadley ( home­page / view entry )
  Hadley’s sub­mis­sion does a ter­rific job of reor­ga­niz­ing the con­tent, com­bin­ing items like the con­tests into one sec­tion, along with more descrip­tive nam­ing for each sec­tion. This design also fea­tures more sep­a­ra­tion between sec­tion headings.

Each win­ner has been noti­fied via email of the results, along with their Type­Pad 20% Dis­count Codes. I plan to imple­ment the changes through­out this week, and pos­si­bly into the week­end, and will post a short note when the new side­bar is live. My guess is that reg­u­lar read­ers will appre­ci­ate the changes, espe­cially the extra sep­a­ra­tion of the sec­tion head­ings (as seen in two of the entries).

A big thanks to Brad, Kjell and Hadley for enter­ing, and not allow­ing the con­test to slip by unno­ticed. Your entries are ter­rific, and will make this site even bet­ter than before!

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Thursday, September 4th, 2003.

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