Boggle The Mind

Just a congratulations to Ian Muir for his REMIX design “Horror Flick” that won him a trip to the MIX ‘07 conference!

ESPN.com launched a spankin’ new redesign on us overnight. The front page layout now more closely matches the layout they have been using for the main sections. The navigation has been moved from the left column to drop down menus, which gives more space for actual content. Overall, I think the look is nice - but I’m astounded by the amount of errors in their code.

Over 1800 errors at the time I checked it - just errors! Nevermind the warnings as well - I was shocked at how long the validator took to load the page with over 5,000 lines of errors, warnings and info.

Now, I won’t even go so far as to suggest that the page should validate with no errors at all - but with the amount they have, it simply goes to show that there wasn’t even an effort made to produce valid code. I look foward to reading what some of the folks in the standards community say about this redesign.

(oh, and for a little fun? read an interview with Mike Davidson about ESPN’s last redesign or look through 10 years of ESPN.com designs.)

Tags: FailedRedesigns, ESPN

While looking through my feeds yesterday, I came across a link posted by Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users to the entries in a contest being hosted by Mike Davidson of Newsvine. Mike’s contest is fairly straightforward:

The theme of the final Mike Industries iPod Creativity Competition of 2005 is to design a movie poster featuring Steve Jobs. … Just feature the man we all know and love in a cinematic role, keep your image exactly 418 pixels wide, and insert your entry inline in the comments of this post.

Ok easy enough, right? My first thought was the movie 8 Mile, with the underlying theme of the underdog having to battle for success.

Now, I’m certainly not as talented as some of the other entrants, but did I do the idea justice?

Here are my other favorites, both by Sean Liew

i,Pod
Enemy of Bill Gates

Which ones do you like best?