Comments on: Carsonified re-design winner

By: Karls

Karls — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:12:02 +0000

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!

By: Mike Papageorge

Mike Papageorge — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:14:33 +0000

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 itâ€™s probably one of the best wordpress themes Iâ€™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.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:41:11 +0000

Sean’s one is a lot better…

By: Christopher Smith

Christopher Smith — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:12:36 +0000

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.

By: feiern

feiern — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:02:18 +0000

And another one for Sean ;-)

Being a parttime developer and designer myself, i really like that clean, simple – yet professional – approach.

By: Rob Grady

Rob Grady — Sun, 20 May 2007 01:54:19 +0000

Another for Sean, well done.

By: Grant Hutchins

Grant Hutchins — Sat, 19 May 2007 10:22:12 +0000

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.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:02:55 +0000

If you don’t mind, would you provide a larger thumbnail each of the design, particularly Sean’s.

Thanks in advance.

Sarah

By: Myles Eftos

Myles Eftos — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:23:35 +0000

Congratulations Grant!

Good to see an Aussie (and even better a Perth boy) mixing it with rest. Go you good thing.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:43:38 +0000

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.