Welcome to the new OpenDesigns
In the last few months I’ve been listening to user feedback and working hard in implementing new and exciting features to OpenDesigns. Also, as more and more awesome designs were submitted, it became harder and harder to browse them all, so a solution was needed.
Today I am proud to announce the launch of the 3rd major revision of OpenDesigns.org. Here’s what’s changed:
- New clean and streamlined interface
- Design Rating
- Tag Cloud
- Advanced search of designs by category, color, contrast, columns, layout, license, validation and keywords. This search feature should be faster and more accurate than any previous search feature.
- Design rating. Now users can give a rating to their favorite designs. As the ratings build up, more rating related options (such as search by rating) will be introduced.
- Design comments
- Social bookmarking for designs
- Top contributors are credited on the home page
- Downloaded zip fies now have proper names
I am looking forward to your feedback, so that we can get started on the next round of improvements.
Can you explain more on design submission rules?
- Designs must be valid XHTML
What about HTML5?
- Text cannot be contained within images.
What does this mean? Well, if it’s against image fonts, I agree. But what about SVG?
- All images must be your own and not copyrighted.
What if images themselves are GPLed or in CC?
- No JavaScript / DHTML is to be used in your design.
Why ban Javascript?