17 May 2007
Carsonified re-design winner
I’m sorry it’s taken me so freakin’ long to get these designs up! Here are the entries:
Anna Bergman Template Monster
And the winner is … Grant Bissett! We’ve notified him and hopefully we’ll be able to up the new design soon.
Thanks everyone for participating. It was a lot of fun!
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mimo
# May 17, 2007 - 11:38 pm
nice. but i would’ve gone for sean.
Teddy
# May 17, 2007 - 11:45 pm
Definitely would have gone for Sean’s as well, that’s a great design! He should release it as a WP theme.
The one you picked is cool as well, definitely different, and it’s your site so you know what you want to do.
Matt Anarde
# May 18, 2007 - 12:04 am
Liked Sean’s, too.
Michael
# May 18, 2007 - 12:39 am
Another one for Sean – still creative yet easy to read.
Michael
# May 18, 2007 - 2:44 am
Dude, Sean’s is so much better.
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# May 18, 2007 - 3:19 am
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Peter B
# May 18, 2007 - 3:30 am
I have to agree… Sean’s design is the best thought out. Looks great too.
David Myers
# May 18, 2007 - 3:50 am
I would of gone with Sean’s as well, but oh well. If you like it, that’s all that matters. :)
Ben
# May 18, 2007 - 6:25 am
I’m for Sean too. That one immediately jumped out at me as very good, and so I thought the coming ones would be on the same level. But none of them made it.
andrew
# May 18, 2007 - 6:46 am
They are all good designs of course, but dude – what’s wrong with your eyes? – clearly the one by Sean is like 200% better than the rest. Clearly that one should be the winner – It’s classic, in fact it’s probably one of the best wordpress themes I’ve ever seen. I really hope that somehow becomes available.
What’s with the hat thing anyway?
Matt Carey
# May 18, 2007 - 8:38 am
+1 for sean
Ed
# May 18, 2007 - 9:24 am
Yeah, i’d go for Sean’s aswell
Andrew
# May 18, 2007 - 9:40 am
Ha, all of the above agreed with what I was thinking!
+2 for Sean
Sorry Grant.
Luca
# May 18, 2007 - 9:45 am
Another vote for Sean, possibly Anna too!
Stefson
# May 18, 2007 - 9:48 am
Hehe, I’m going for Sean’s design as well.
Awesome design. Easy to navigate/skim and it really pleases the eyes :p
Please release it as a free WP theme Sean!
Matt
# May 18, 2007 - 10:05 am
Sean, Sean, and Sean again.
Lars Fischer
# May 18, 2007 - 10:14 am
+1 for Sean…
Grant
# May 18, 2007 - 10:52 am
Sean’s design is beautiful, I agree (as is Chris’ design), but.. it doesn’t have a hat.
Petr Vaclavek
# May 18, 2007 - 12:10 pm
Sean for the win!
Ryan Carson
# May 18, 2007 - 12:36 pm
Looks like we got a revolt on our hands!
The reason I didn’t go for Sean’s is because there wasn’t much ‘design’ to it. It didn’t feel like there was any personality.
I think one of my favourite blog designs ever is Matt Mullenweg’s.
Ben Lilley
# May 18, 2007 - 1:02 pm
Sean’s is clearly the most professional in the list, and as someone else said I was expecting the rest to reach that level, and they really didn’t.
The only personality Grant’s has is the hat really, which can easily be added to Sean’s, but it’s your choice :)
I’m sure Grant’s will look good too.
andrew
# May 18, 2007 - 1:31 pm
Quote “The reason I didn’t go for Sean’s is because there wasn’t much ‘design’ to it. It didn’t feel like there was any personality.”
Funny.
fyi – the hat thing isn’t personality, it’s dumb.
Dennis
# May 18, 2007 - 1:41 pm
+1 Sean FTW.
Darren Nicholls
# May 18, 2007 - 2:01 pm
Nice choice
Greg
# May 18, 2007 - 3:43 pm
I couldn’t agree more with everyone else commenting on here – Sean’s is absolutely the best. Where are all your current ads and promotions going to go? They’ve simply been eliminated in Grant’s concept. And…to say there’s not much “design” in Sean’s is a pretty silly comment. I don’t know what you would consider “design” but it’s definitely got the most class, the best information layout and is the easiest to navigate and follow.
In any event, it’s your site.
Myles Eftos
# May 18, 2007 - 4:23 pm
Congratulations Grant!
Good to see an Aussie (and even better a Perth boy) mixing it with rest. Go you good thing.
Sarah
# May 18, 2007 - 7:02 pm
If you don’t mind, would you provide a larger thumbnail each of the design, particularly Sean’s.
Thanks in advance.
Sarah
Grant Hutchins
# May 19, 2007 - 10:22 am
Sean’s is very neat and clean but still I prefer Grant’s. and not just because his first name is really cool. Something about Sean’s design looks too much like every other site to me. drop shadows, columns, tabs, yawn.
To be fair to Sean, I did just redesign one of my sites to have drop shadows and columns and tabs.
Rob Grady
# May 20, 2007 - 1:54 am
Another for Sean, well done.
feiern
# May 20, 2007 - 7:02 pm
And another one for Sean ;-)
Being a parttime developer and designer myself, i really like that clean, simple – yet professional – approach.
Christopher Smith
# May 21, 2007 - 1:12 pm
I’m with the majority but what really matters is what Ryan fills the new design with – his thoughts and experiences.
That’s what I come here for.
Ray
# May 29, 2007 - 3:41 pm
Sean’s one is a lot better…
Mike Papageorge
# May 30, 2007 - 8:14 am
I think the comments for Sean’s mockup pretty much tell the story for why I wouldn’t have chosen it. Things like “in fact it’s probably one of the best wordpress themes I’ve ever seen.”.
It’s too generic, it looks like a WP theme. Something outta the box. It’s nice, would make a great theme for WP to ship with, but has no personality, IMO.
Karls
# May 31, 2007 - 2:12 pm
I have to admit, I am loving Sean’s design. It lends to the side of readability, and makes it easy to find various types of content.
If it is too generic, a little bit of CSS goodness can spruce it up as time goes on. IMHO.
Sean, please release it. Good job!