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Hi all,

The new design has been deployed just now and I want to congratulate you guys for the official launch!

A few tweaks on the final design from the mockup I posted:

  • I decided not to use the Yanone font since it is a bit narrow for question titles, especially on the homepage where the titles are repeated. I'm using Tahoma instead, same as the Beta theme.

  • I used /* */ for the logo since a lot of people liked it. But I did leave a faint cameo for } { as well. If the community feels strongly about using } { maybe the mods can open up a poll.

  • CSS3. The final implementation uses some CSS3 elements, such as the button treatment, new user greeting box(same tips box on Ask/Edit pages), multiple background for the body doodles. Our web stats show close to 90% of users use CSS3 capable browsers, so I felt it was OK to do so. IE and older browsers should degrade gracefully.

  • The right side doodle didn't make it in, because it'd clash with the content at lower res. However, I may work it in later, using media query.

  • Error/404/Captcha images. For now I put in some place holders. Feel free to provide more feedback on the official suggestion thread. Or, if you like what I put in, I can leave them.

    The new favicons are up, but the old ones may be cached by your browsers. You can always load the following URLs and hard refresh.

    http://sstatic.net/programmers/img/favicon.ico

    http://sstatic.net/programmersmeta/img/favicon.ico

If you see any CSS/Styling issues, please start a new question for the bug report, and tag it with "Design" and "Bug." It will be a lot easier for me to track new questions than reading the comments replied to this thread.

I typically fix CSS/usability issues asap. As for more subjective styling requests, I tend to let the new design simmer a bit. After having used the Beta Sketchy theme for a few months, it will take a bit of time to get used to the new design.

Thanks, and congrats again!

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    Just noticed... Looks great!
    – Eric King
    Dec 16, 2010 at 18:31
  • Thanks, Jin! It's looking good.
    – HedgeMage
    Dec 16, 2010 at 18:33
  • I quite like the captcha and 404 images. Haven't been able to trigger an error though ;)
    – ChrisF Mod
    Dec 16, 2010 at 21:25
  • Came as a lovely surprise on my Android phone. Worked fine and looks great.
    – Gary
    Dec 16, 2010 at 22:01
  • @ChrisF you can go there manually: programmers.stackexchange.com/error
    – Jin
    Dec 17, 2010 at 0:38
  • @Jin - another thing I didn't know. Thanks. The image is good too - evoking SO's error page.
    – ChrisF Mod
    Dec 17, 2010 at 13:07
  • Hooray! ` ` ` `
    – Mark C
    Dec 17, 2010 at 16:50

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I really like the semi-erased white board background

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  • Should be pink-tinged for added realism
    – Nick T
    Dec 16, 2010 at 23:05
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I was only vaguely aware a site appearance redesign was in the offing, and so when I clicked on a question I had displaying to see if anyone had added anything, suddenly everything changed! I was like "Whoa!" After a moment it all came clear, and I was ENLIGHTENED!

NICE! MUCH BETTER!

I didn't have a problem with the old design appearance, but this is a huge improvement. Thanks!

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It's quite harder to read,

at least for me.

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  • What parts do you find harder to read? I like the new font in most places, but I found the main page's titles were harder to read for me too.
    – Rachel
    Dec 20, 2010 at 14:35
  • @Rachel - pretty much everything is harder to read. Just somehow does not feel right (for me).
    – Jas
    Dec 20, 2010 at 17:41
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    ditto.. I'm not a frequent user anymore because it's difficult to read...
    – makerofthings7
    Jan 18, 2011 at 1:54
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Love it!

Except the logo. In my opinion the logo should be what was voted rather then a few comments.

Also when loading a new page there is a very noticeable lag when swapping the fonts out. The nav bar overflows and then re-corrects when the new font drops in. Can this be fixed? (FF 4.b7)

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    The highest-voted logo }Out Of Scope{ really only makes sense with the "Out of Scope" name. }Programmers{ would just make anyone who hadn't seen that thread wonder why the heck our braces were reversed.
    – Tim Goodman
    Dec 17, 2010 at 19:14
  • @Tim: Why don't we keep } Out Of Scope {?
    – Josh K
    Dec 17, 2010 at 19:51
  • That logo discussion is out of date. "Out of Scope" was from the domain discussion which was closed when the domain-name idea was put on hold. Since Out of Scope is (at least currently) not the name, the brackets don't make much sense, as Tim says.
    – Nicole
    Dec 20, 2010 at 2:48
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Blood cell badges? I liked the little "sunken" versions in the mockup

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    T, i decided to keep the badge style from the top bar and the in-page ones consistent. I liked the sunken style too, but it doesn't work on the sticky note background for the badges in side of the page. I just didn't want to use 2 different styling for the badges.
    – Jin
    Dec 16, 2010 at 18:41
  • The sunken look at the top reads "disabled" to me. Otherwise, I really like the new design.
    – Wonko the Sane
    Dec 20, 2010 at 14:42
  • It seems as though the badges changed...they are now erythrocytes that have not yet undergone anucleation :D
    – Nick T
    Jan 3, 2011 at 16:39

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