L0pht Website Relaunched
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*Add link with some history from the creator. http://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=94
From a design perspective, it is simple, but very dark and hard to read. Reversed text (darker background, lighter print) can work for headlines, but for larger bodies of text it is more difficult to read.
Unfortunately, the way I see it you haven't communicated what it is and why i'd use it, and you also haven't designed it well enough from a strictly visual standpoint to make it usable.
For reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht
As the grandparent explains, this article has no context in the title ("[unspellable] website launched"), and no context in the target site. It's just a black hole (or rather a grey hole, given the site's look and feel). I made it back here without any idea what it was or why I had been sent there.
The grandparent's assessment was completely correct and delivered constructively. It should not have been voted down.
Even if you were completely unaware of them the use of the word relaunch would indicate that it was an existing site and a quick search on Google would show you why explaining who they are wouldn't always be considered necessary. Complaining of not knowing who they are just screams to me of laziness.
His assessment was targeted at a site where design is a concern for the site. The l0pht site has pretty much always been more about substance than style making a design critic pointless.
Will Cult of the Dead Cow come back too?
(Wait! They are back already! I just hadn't looked in something like a decade. Jesus christ, they have a blog now...)