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One week left in the uws redesign contest

The deadline for submissions for the uwstudent.org redesign contest is only nine days away!

Details of the contest are included in the story announcing the launch of the contest. To date, four redesign concepts have been shared on uws. Images of those redesign concepts are included below.

Let us know what you think, and consider submitting an entry!

Redesign concepts

Submission #1:

HTML version of Andrew Lo's concept

Submission #2:

Submission #3:

Submission #4:



One week left in the uws redesign contest | 55 comments | Create New Account
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My favorite
Authored by: hmmm on Wednesday, April 21 2004 @ 11:15 PM CDT
My personal choice would be submission 3. As long as the UWS in the background is changed so that it doesn't look like UWO.

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#2
Authored by: Lawrence on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 12:13 AM CDT
My vote is for #2

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oldschool baby
Authored by: Tim on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 12:51 AM CDT
Would the old uws style still be available for those who wish to use it?

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blah
Authored by: andrew on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 09:30 AM CDT
i'd like to retract mine cause it sucks. the others look way better.

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Google-ish theme
Authored by: Some Guy on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 02:38 PM CDT
Haven't you people learned anything from Google?
Simple, elegant, with not extra bullshit is the way to go. #4 is probably the best in that respect.

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#2 for sure
Authored by: leo on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 05:51 PM CDT
C'mon #2 has got to be the nicest one there!

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My vote is for #2
Authored by: Leon G on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 06:00 PM CDT
Very neat and organized, but not plain and boring.





Props to the fencing team!

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2
Authored by: margaret on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 06:05 PM CDT
I think two is the best. Three and four are too similar to your current look. A
fresh design would be better.

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take #2
Authored by: jrodgers on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 06:48 PM CDT
#2 is pretty cool.. not sure how it would work with geeklog but i suppose it
doesn't matter.

Should be some cool CSS.

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#4 is great!
Authored by: Yug Emos on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 09:58 PM CDT
I vote for #4

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Guy-The-Some
Authored by: Wow! #4 is totally great! on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 09:59 PM CDT
I say #4 is the one to go with.

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#2's nice, but...
Authored by: Bean Lard Mulch on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 10:00 PM CDT
#2's a nice mix of eye candy and functionality. But now, a concern:
- How big is that sucker for download? Some of us are on cruddy dialup, but think that going to lite mode is a little extreme.

And a recommendation:
- News/Feds/RDC etc. are the links I use all the time, but I rarely use Submit Story/Event/What's Hot etc. What if we switched the locations of these so that the former are in the nice big tabs at the top?

That having been said, props to the submitter. That's some tasty design.

Cheers,
Chris

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Notsome Guy
Authored by: Totally #4! on Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 10:00 PM CDT
go #4!

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Burning in hell
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 24 2004 @ 03:54 PM CDT
I vote for #2. It makes it look like UW is burning in hell. It's funny because that's what so many students wish it would do.

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My preference
Authored by: Tim on Saturday, April 24 2004 @ 11:56 PM CDT
2 and 4 misuse space too much IMHO.

1 is nice but the scroll is OOGLY.

Ergo, I like 2 best. It wastes the least space, even though grey's not necessarily my favourite screen colour.

uws has a lot of info that needs to be displayed. I feel that 2 and 4 would not display all of this info effectively.

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bah dammit
Authored by: jrodgers on Sunday, April 25 2004 @ 12:59 PM CDT
I was working on one then realized its just a rip off what we are playing with
for the new UW design.. but its cool. At least the one that only works in CSS2
complaint browsers. oooh can't wait for CSS3 support!

When is this over? Any chance of an extension?

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clean(er) HTML to work with for others
Authored by: jrodgers on Tuesday, April 27 2004 @ 03:09 PM CDT
I have some cleaned up UWS home page code here. I took out
the tables, a lot of open p's and silly placed BR's. It isn't HTML 4.01
valid as some forms and such are screwing it up. But it will work for what i
need it to do. I also added some proper formatting in headers and paragraphs
and cut it down to 5 stories. I left some of the span classes as they were..
might use it. The code I took was from yesterday...

So ya Jesse, I could use a couple days. This week is shaping up to be rather
sane but.. meh. One thing though, it will be CSS2 valid but likely only work in
Moz not IE for now. I don't have time to mess with hacks and workarounds.

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Design
Authored by: David on Thursday, April 29 2004 @ 10:27 PM CDT
Here is one that I put together. Check it out, http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~dismith/uwstudent/index.html

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extension til monday?
Authored by: matt on Friday, April 30 2004 @ 01:24 AM CDT
could it be possible to extend to monday night? the fact that UW labs aren't working makes my job much harder...

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24K okay file size?
Authored by: matt (submission #2) on Friday, April 30 2004 @ 01:45 AM CDT
question for you guys, what do you think, would 24K for the top banner be a decent file size for submission #2?

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Entry #2: Final submission
Authored by: matt on Tuesday, May 04 2004 @ 01:15 AM CDT
here you go, take a look.

mattism.hyperdot.net/uws/

i've noticed that the advertising banner is not the default 468x60... and i'm not sure if UWS would like to keep the original one or go back with the default-- or completely go crazy with another ad design.

nevertheless, there's room reserved on the orange title bar for advertising space-- so changing that would be no biggie.

if there are still further recommendations... i'd be delighted to revise it.

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well?
Authored by: student on Friday, July 16 2004 @ 12:17 PM CDT
I don't get it. A winner was never picked?

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