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I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN

54 pointsoreopithecus75 comments

will only do 3 sites (in a span of 180 minutes); will do max 5 pages per site. Post link in comments, feel free to link ANY site, it doesn't necessarily need to be yours.

(i'll reply with Netlify links to the redesigned, chaotically-coded, static pages)

!for fun!

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Oh c'mon, be reasonable!

This is how we can know how good of a designer he really is.

I would think of all the sites that people here could relate to, and would have an instant response as to whether or not the new design would be better, would be this actual site. It's hard to judge a site you're otherwise not using on a regular basis and have had as long a relationship with. I would love to see an HN redesign.

Sorry, I was being tongue-in-cheek if that wasn't obvious. This site needs to be dragged about two decades into 2021 and I was taking a dig at the effort needed. ;)

Well it is fine like this. I wish the entire web would be similar to HN in terms of information density and resource usage.

HN needs an infinite scroll and AI-curated newsfeed so developers here can eat their own type of dogfood.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

> If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above.

It's a postal address!

This would be a fun one because there’s basically no information hierarchy right now. Lot of work to do.

This site looks like one I would "design": Just HTML with a bit of CSS (Standard-Stylesheet should be good enough /s)

https://www.lingscars.com/

This website is a work of art

You should not: if anything, that would be a showcase of your proficiency in design memes, or if put another way, general incompetence.

To redesign something, I feel like you need to dive deep into what the project wants to achieve, and why it doesn’t happen (if it ever really does not). For that, you will need owners’ input and a lot of research, which you doubtfully can get in three hours.

Ever heard about hammock-driven development? Stop the rush, have a listen: https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

https://trymito.io. We desperately need some redesign help. Thanks!

For starters, removing the ham people with soyjack faces would be a huge leap in the right direction

microsoft.com (frontpage is enough)

Started working on "microsoft.com". Time elapsed: 5 minutes.

i'm really curious

Done. 1 hour and 6 minutes, 253 lines of code (mainly inline CSS).

It's a dumbed down, extremely simple version of the front page of microsoft.com, with the first section showing news-like snippets of the content of the 4 main links: Microsoft 365 (which includes Office), Windows, Xbox and Surface. The rest are the other less relevant Microsoft-related links from the "All Microsoft" section. They took me some time to type in).

The rest of the functionality (Account and shopping, support-related) aren't included. Other event-related content isn't included.

https://boring-colden-2cca40.netlify.app/microsoft.html

This... doesn't look very good. What is that colour scheme? Orange and green?!

Edit: I feel like I should say - if you are new to things, please don't feel discouraged by criticism. Everyone starts somewhere.

It looks like it is made by someone who just picked up HTML/CSS and has zero knowledge of design. Hope you are trolling.

The colors/background doesn't work on Firefox.

Removing the navigation and sign in was a bold choice.

"Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on boring-colden-2cca40.netlify.app. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you."

Edit: Checked in Firefox. I'll be polite and just leave it at "Oh, dear."

Dear oreopithecus,

perhaps you could have a look at the following sites:

- http://fln-sh.de/ - http://sarrrah.de/ - http://luedog.de/

best regards

I built the frontend for this website I made with my friends during a hackathon this year https://squadify.ml/. It's for building a Spotify playlist of common songs between a group of people. It's about 4 different pages total.

http://zombo.com/

(this site is > 20 years old.)

https://www.debian.org/

https://slashdot.org/

https://minireference.com/ = product page for math textbooks (currently single page for both books, but OK to split into listing page + product detail pages if that makes more sense)

https://winamp.com

https://pingtype.github.io

Chinese-learning tool that I wrote, with significant feature creep :-P

Any suggestions about adding features without adding buttons would be welcome!

I think this website needs help and I know someone who works here - https://www.plume.com/homepass/

https://joinpeertube.org/ a great FOSS software and a site that could have some love.

Interested what you can do with https://www.soundshelter.net/

https://busylifecookery.com/ it's my covid project

No! That design is really good.

I really like your site, straight to the point, no SEO bullshit text. Well done!

I like your design. Just color-correct some of the drab yellowish photos.

https://next-episode.net

I always thought it could look a lot better, modern.

https://gnu.org Pls add better sans font for readability

Surprised nobody has made a deep learning solution for this. There's plenty of data to train on.

"This website does not exist."

https://incrediblehealth.com - I work there

That actually seems like an excellent design?

The design isn't bad, it just has a very "we paid $20 for a great WordPress template and changed a few things" vibe to it. Maybe this is something only developer notices, but when I see this, I always wonder how credible the company is.

https://concise-encoding.org/

https://bruno-simon.com/

https://www.jobsort.com/

https://www.ppltrainer.at

https://aaronfrancis.com

https://streamieapp.com

https://torchlight.dev

The old purple.com from before the mattress company ate it.

pornhub.com

OpenBSD.org

Shepherd.com (book discovery)

paypal.com curious to see what you have got there :)

Oswinproject.org.uk

Fluidframework.com

Yoganotch.com

GitHub.com

www.vestmap.com (I own it!)

clicking the hamburger menu for the first time on the mobile version of your site in private/incognito mode results in a spam redirect

edit: reproduced on chrome by setting: Network Conditions > User Agent to Safari - iPhone iOS 13.2 and Dimensions iPhone X Looks like it sets the cookie `_p` to 1

edit: I believe this is the offending file (line 4349 at the time of writing this) https://www.vestmap.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?...

Working on vestmap.com

Any updates?

Yazz.com

jquizzy.com

Imdb.com

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