MrAlmostWrong

There is no need to redesign when you can read the NYT in basically any format of your choosing with the NYT Skimmer:

http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/?pagewanted=all#/Top+News

Everytime I see a price drop my first though is always, "I wonder how much this increases Dropbox's revenue?"

They left out the 'Paypal might hold all your funds and make it a pain to get them back' fee.

I know this isn't what you asked for, but it sounds like you are trying to find a design that you will wedge your content into. Let the content dictate the design.

Curious to know if you think it isn't broken because you are used to it or if it isn't broken because when you first came across it you thought everything was perfect?

(In reply to devmonk)

Interesting, I never read that, but now I'll have to see if I can find the study you talk about. Like I mentioned before I would rather increase the font size and then space things out a bit more, but that would offer less links on a page so it becomes a compromise.

Thinking of the type of audience HN attracts one would think people wouldn't have a problem bumping up the size in their browsers although that can be annoying to do.

Heh, didn't expect that comparison.

Also the text for the homepage is the exact same size as the current HN unless my eyes are deceiving me. My choice would be to bump up the size of course like I did on the single page, but figured the audience was more attuned to the small size so they could scan more links at once.

Whoops, the boxes around arrows wasn't supposed to be there. The colors are arbitrary and could be changed to remain consistent with HN. As for the alternating row colors they help me (obviously we differ) in scanning the site.

And I did this earlier in the week before the "redesign HN" trend started to appear on the site. Now I feel like a total bandwagoner, heh.

Seems there was a slight error. Today's lesson: Never run off for a bathroom break when there might be errors on a page.

The other side of this is having the company duplicate what you did and you are still out of a job.

Check out http://www.builditwith.me/ that connects designers and developers that have ideas.

A business model besides the ads and the subscription service already in place?

If you want to fill out your portfolio then just create some designs/redesigns of your own. Pick a niche and redesign it, for example online banking. As admirable as it is to do free design work, it's only work if you are getting paid and you will find that many times people will just take advantage of an offer like this.

Let's not forget the headaches of having to tweak to the client's happiness. Who wants to continue working on a site when you aren't getting paid to do so?

If anything offer a 1-2 page deal for $XXX. Better to have 2 paying clients than 10 free ones that you can't keep up with. Get in the habit of charging now so you don't feel weird about it later.

Awesome, I'll have to look into that. Thank you.

You have to read the whole site to appreciate the genius of it. Who cares if there are grammatical errors, the guy is hilarious! It's a great Friday read if you are looking for a laugh and then consider that if he got a proofreader might be the greatest copywriting you find this month.

I own this book and refer to it all the time. It is really well written and well presented. It's essentially a crash course into the principles of design.