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Boing Boing Gets Redesigned
Posted: August 28, 2007

Boing Boing, one of the largest blogs in the world, has received a massive update to it’s site. I’ve been reading Boing Boing for about a year now, and I think I may have liked the previous version more.
Sure it was cluttered and ugly, but I think it matched the feel of what the site was about; a totally random amount of links and images from all over the web.
It’s like when you end up marrying an ugly person. You don’t marry them because of their looks, you marry them because they’re interesting, intelligent, and above all else, they make you laugh a lot.

The redesign was done by Jemma Hostetler, and the new character mascots were done by the masters of pixels, eBoy. I guess my beef with the overall design is that it’s sooooo damn white. It’s boringly minimal. Not only that, but it makes their ads stick a lot more. I never really realized how many annoying ads they had before this.

Also as a part of their redesign they’ve added Boing Boing Gadgets, which contains “personal technology and consumer electronics”. It kind of seems to me like they want another page where you can go and click some links and they can make money. I think it’s completely superfluous to make another entire site just for gadgets.
They’ve also brought comments back, which I don’t really care about all that much, haha.

I guess overall it’s a step in the right direction, I just hope that they do some really great stuff now that they’ve done an entire update.

Bobby

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1. So true about the marrying the fugly one. Now everytime i visit boing boing i will think of the ugly person that found a cookie cutter plastic surgeon?

   Comment by jean — September 4, 2007 #

2. Haha, yeah I think so.
   It still bugs me that they split the content up into two parts. Totally unnecessary.

   Comment by kitsunenoir — September 6, 2007 #

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