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The new BoingBoing.net website is taking a tiny bit of flack for its redesign, people are claiming that it has an “ad-supported-template” feel to it. The site right now currently has 9 ads, 4 of which are individual Google Text Links. A quick hop over to archive.org you can see that there are 12-16 ads, no Google text ads for the given day day. (12-16 depending on how you “look” at a couple.) I’d add all those image links running down the left side even if they are more “blog roll” like simply because there is no way to know if they are ads or not.

The legibility is about 100x better, the previous tiny text and lack of real post divisions I felt always made the site hard to read. No it is so much easier to read, scan for interesting articles. The navigation links on the top make them feel like “first class citizens” where previously they seemed to lack any importance. I am not sure how important this is, but I will be curious to see if this helps boost their usage.

Great job guys!

Read about the redesign in their own words:
Welcome to the new Boing Boing!

mboffin.com has a really cool time lapsed screencast of the stages a website goes through as design elements are added.

For those who do not know, CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, are a way to separate a websites design from its content. So you have one file, an HTML file, with all the content such as the text for an article. You then have a CSS file that defines how the content is to look and act.

So this 30 sec. screencast follows the life of a plain text site all the way through to a fully designed and well formated blog.

Go to the time lapsed CSS screencast.