Well some of you may have noticed that SourceForge has done a redesign of their portal. I have a few good comments about it:

1. The look of it as far as color and style is better. Now it has a more modern look and feel to it, which is important for the OSS community as could show we are not old and stale.
2. On a project page, the download link now stands out like a Mac in a sea of beige boxen. The green color is perfect because it is not used anywhere else and thus will always draw the readers eye.

And some bad comments:

1. On the bad side, all the extra modern-isms sf uses now is adding pixels to an already cramped setup. The ads now seem to be pushing into the content of the page.
2. On the project page again, the project details now look horrible. They contain useful information and look like an after thought, hence they get a cramped little box. I think a more horizontal box would be nice, one that stretched the width of the content area. Or even a little CSS popup that had a summary when not hovered but details when you hover on it, like their ads from the Premier Sponsors.

Example:

!/files/sf_redesign.jpg(Screenshot of the Project Details)!

Overall, the site has improved but they still have some issues to deal with before I will say it is a good redesign.

Eric Davis