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Carsonified re-design winner

Posted by Ryan on May 17th, 2007 in Misc

34 comments

I’m sorry it’s taken me so freakin’ long to get these designs up! Here are the entries:

Sean Johnson

Grant Bissett

Chris Abad

Karen Stout

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 17th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

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nice. but i would’ve gone for sean.
Teddy

May 17th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

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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 18th, 2007 at 12:04 am

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Liked Sean’s, too.
Michael

May 18th, 2007 at 12:39 am

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Another one for Sean - still creative yet easy to read.
Michael

May 18th, 2007 at 2:44 am

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Dude, Sean’s is so much better.
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May 18th, 2007 at 3:19 am

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[…] Entered. Lost. Sulked. Watched LOST. […]
Peter B

May 18th, 2007 at 3:30 am

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I have to agree… Sean’s design is the best thought out. Looks great too.
David Myers

May 18th, 2007 at 3:50 am

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I would of gone with Sean’s as well, but oh well. If you like it, that’s all that matters. :)
Ben

May 18th, 2007 at 6:25 am

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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 18th, 2007 at 6:46 am

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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 18th, 2007 at 8:38 am

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+1 for sean
Ed

May 18th, 2007 at 9:24 am

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Yeah, i’d go for Sean’s aswell
Andrew

May 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am

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Ha, all of the above agreed with what I was thinking!

+2 for Sean

Sorry Grant.
Luca

May 18th, 2007 at 9:45 am

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Another vote for Sean, possibly Anna too!
Stefson

May 18th, 2007 at 9:48 am

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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 18th, 2007 at 10:05 am

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Sean, Sean, and Sean again.
Lars Fischer

May 18th, 2007 at 10:14 am

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+1 for Sean…
Grant

May 18th, 2007 at 10:52 am

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Sean’s design is beautiful, I agree (as is Chris’ design), but.. it doesn’t have a hat.
Petr Vaclavek

May 18th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

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Sean for the win!
Ryan Carson

May 18th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

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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 18th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

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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 18th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

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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 18th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

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+1 Sean FTW.
Darren Nicholls

May 18th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

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Nice choice
Greg

May 18th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

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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 18th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

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Congratulations Grant!

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

May 18th, 2007 at 7:02 pm

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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 19th, 2007 at 10:22 am

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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 20th, 2007 at 1:54 am

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Another for Sean, well done.
feiern

May 20th, 2007 at 7:02 pm

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And another one for Sean ;-)

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

May 21st, 2007 at 1:12 pm

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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 29th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

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Sean’s one is a lot better…
Mike Papageorge

May 30th, 2007 at 8:14 am

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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 31st, 2007 at 2:12 pm

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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!