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I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN

54 points by oreopithecus ↗ HN
will only do 3 sites (in a span of 180 minutes); will do max 5 pages per site. Post link in comments, feel free to link ANY site, it doesn't necessarily need to be yours.

(i'll reply with Netlify links to the redesigned, chaotically-coded, static pages)

!for fun!

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alpenbazi
microsoft.com (frontpage is enough)
oreopithecus
Started working on "microsoft.com". Time elapsed: 5 minutes.
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oreopithecus
Done. 1 hour and 6 minutes, 253 lines of code (mainly inline CSS).

It's a dumbed down, extremely simple version of the front page of microsoft.com, with the first section showing news-like snippets of the content of the 4 main links: Microsoft 365 (which includes Office), Windows, Xbox and Surface. The rest are the other less relevant Microsoft-related links from the "All Microsoft" section. They took me some time to type in).

The rest of the functionality (Account and shopping, support-related) aren't included. Other event-related content isn't included.

https://boring-colden-2cca40.netlify.app/microsoft.html

rak1507
This... doesn't look very good. What is that colour scheme? Orange and green?!

Edit: I feel like I should say - if you are new to things, please don't feel discouraged by criticism. Everyone starts somewhere.

wooque
It looks like it is made by someone who just picked up HTML/CSS and has zero knowledge of design. Hope you are trolling.
dosshell
The colors/background doesn't work on Firefox.
lelandfe
Removing the navigation and sign in was a bold choice.
[dead] oreopithecus
Not bolder than the one I had to make between your mom and your sister
LordAtlas
"Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on boring-colden-2cca40.netlify.app. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you."

Edit: Checked in Firefox. I'll be polite and just leave it at "Oh, dear."

clay_the_ripper
www.vestmap.com (I own it!)
__initbrian__
clicking the hamburger menu for the first time on the mobile version of your site in private/incognito mode results in a spam redirect

edit: reproduced on chrome by setting: Network Conditions > User Agent to Safari - iPhone iOS 13.2 and Dimensions iPhone X Looks like it sets the cookie `_p` to 1

edit: I believe this is the offending file (line 4349 at the time of writing this) https://www.vestmap.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?...

JCWasmx86
https://news.ycombinator.com/
LordAtlas
Oh c'mon, be reasonable!
xwdv
This is how we can know how good of a designer he really is.
rexreed
I would think of all the sites that people here could relate to, and would have an instant response as to whether or not the new design would be better, would be this actual site. It's hard to judge a site you're otherwise not using on a regular basis and have had as long a relationship with. I would love to see an HN redesign.
LordAtlas
Sorry, I was being tongue-in-cheek if that wasn't obvious. This site needs to be dragged about two decades into 2021 and I was taking a dig at the effort needed. ;)
JCWasmx86
Well it is fine like this. I wish the entire web would be similar to HN in terms of information density and resource usage.
amelius
HN needs an infinite scroll and AI-curated newsfeed so developers here can eat their own type of dogfood.
narush
https://trymito.io. We desperately need some redesign help. Thanks!
Minor49er
For starters, removing the ham people with soyjack faces would be a huge leap in the right direction
udbhavs
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
ahmedfromtunis
> If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above.

It's a postal address!

lelandfe
This would be a fun one because there’s basically no information hierarchy right now. Lot of work to do.
JCWasmx86
This site looks like one I would "design": Just HTML with a bit of CSS (Standard-Stylesheet should be good enough /s)
[dead] thy77
Paynefamilyfinancial.com i want to add a blog/news section and a more permanent/evergreen tips or advice section. Thank you for the design help!
init0
paypal.com curious to see what you have got there :)
[dead] thy77
Http://Paynefamilyfinancial.com
bwb
Shepherd.com (book discovery)
tomhallett
https://incrediblehealth.com - I work there
tomcam
That actually seems like an excellent design?
vcryan
The design isn't bad, it just has a very "we paid $20 for a great WordPress template and changed a few things" vibe to it. Maybe this is something only developer notices, but when I see this, I always wonder how credible the company is.