TechCrunch has hit a milestone, and is celebrating with a makeover.
We grew to over 500 daily RSS readers yesterday (about six weeks after our initial launch). People seem to like our content and until now have overlooked our fairly pathetic design skills. Well, today that changes!
We hired all-star developer and web designer Frederico Oliveira to redesign TechCrunch from the ground up. All of the bells and whistles should be finished in a day or two, but the general look and feel is now complete. Love it? Hate it? Let us know.
Fred will also be posting occasionally at TechCrunch. He’s opinionated, smart and has an awesome writing style. See his blog at webreakstuff.com.
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A couple of notes to those that might be reading these comments: There’s still a lot to be done in terms of accomodating old content on the new layout, mainly because reworking a blog with the number of posts techcrunch already has usually takes 1/3rd of the time designing and developing and 2/3rds of the time finetuning for old material.
This being said, there will be some quirks on these first couple of days on the new looks. Some content will probably look plain bad - but you can count on a great looking Techcrunch with great looking content once this final stage of adaptation is completed.
There will be a post on my personal blog with a little more detail on the why and how for a lot of aspects of the site, so you may want to keep an eye out for that.
Glad to be a part of techcrunch. These are exciting times.