I mean, you seriously thought we would re-design a website using Devanagari font? Seriously? Macaca please. Well I guess I feel kind of bad calling out the people that actually liked it but… And does a Pokemon-like monkey scream “mutinous” to you? Well, ok. The monkey was pretty fierce so I can see its appeal. Chaitan was responsible for the monkey and most of the rest of this design. Don’t feel bad if you fell victim to our little prank. Even one of SM’s founders (Manish of Ultrabrown) believed it was the real deal and politely began offering advice on little fixes. Also, Avani is female not male, and she is great and definitely has more skillz than a “color-blind infant!” In addition to the comments we received on the blog, many Twitter users also provided us with their opinions.
By the way, don’t think for a minute that designing a website is easy. We know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but we were quite surprised to find this advertisement recently:
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p>$30-250? Delivery within 30 days? Are you effing kidding?
Finally, for those of you interested in seeing evolution sped up, see here: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
Not seriously but something like Kid Cudi
This look sucks. Big time. It’s not even funny.
Figured it was a prank, it’s hideous, but SM could use a face lift to make it better and more usable.
I seriously thought you had switched designs. I hate the use of that font. For anyone who can read hindi, that font plays with their head, coz you’re seeing something that looks like “e” in hindi, but “S” in english.
Also, that monkey was too pixelated for my liking and I couldnt figure out what it was doing with its right hand/fingers. induced puking?
phew, so glad its just a joke.
now that the joke’s over and all that drama, please change it back, please please! =/ my eyes kinda hurt.
Back? Time moves in only one direction hon 🙂
Well Coke introduced new coke when every body was happy with the old one. You can never tell. Stranger things have happened, if you have lived long enough to see. Happy all fools day.
Hey! The monkey was the only thing I liked about that redesign!
x-(
very funny! but the ‘real’ new design is great!
Oh thank goodness.
Thank heavens! After yesterday, I was all like,”What IS wrong with these people?”
you know the one thing you can maybe change is BOLD commenter’s name above their comment. i dont like changes but oh well..gotta get used to it or get the eff out..
SO glad the devanagiri font was a joke. You guys have taste after all!
thank god. i knew it was a joke, but i didnt want to blow up your spot.
Awww – I liked the devnagiri font!
The “Comments” and “News” bars on the right do not show up for me? help please? I am running IE V6.0 sp2 on XP
Abhi’s post:
Sometimes design can be so bad that it is actually cool, or at least passed off as such. So I thought you guys were being your usual cool selves.
This is much better. A couple of suggestions for improvement: 1. The color on both my monitors are too maroonish to be called brown. We want real brown, don’t we? 2. Any way to eliminate scrolling sideways? 3. The commenter’s name should really stand out from the body of the text. It also helps keep track of people and their responses as one is scrolling down the thread.
Liked the pen for i. Am I reading too much into it or is it subliminally referring to the Enfield rifle that supposedly was the final straw that triggered the Sepoy Mutiny? Of course, in a blog, the rifle would be a pen.
Good job, Avani and Chaitan.
the color for the links blends with the reg text.
I was seriously concerned. Happy April Fools?
Wheatish!
thank goodness!
oh thank you thank you… I hated that design. 🙂
point noted =) forward and onward then, mutineering rockstars!
Oh, is this the spot we are supposed to comment on the new look? I mean the final one, not the Apri fool’s one?
Bring back the old Sepia with it’s soft, warm, brown hues. This look, with all due respect to the work that the designer put into it, is much colder, less mutiny-ish. We want that down-home feel.