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Letsrun.com Re-Design Contest Final Round (Please understand that we've made some changes to what we want from the original contest, it's critical that pepole read the new guidelines at As a long-time reader and appreciator of LetsRun.com, I approached this re-design with a healthy amount of skepticism, but I decided to send in this proposal anyway with hope that your own feelings about the brand of LetsRun are similar to mine. A website redesign is always some kind of re-branding. With an already successful website, it can be a little nerve-wracking. That being said, I think that the brand of LetsRun is not the lack of design, but rather the density of information. The Drudge Report and LetsRun work so well because a large amount of information can actually be kind of nice to look at and peruse through, even though it violates traditional website organization. This being said, Ive structured this re-design around the following goals: Anyway, enough theory and on to specifics. We received a ton of good ideas but none that was a winner. We did pick 5 "Studly Designs" which we thought taught us a lot about what we want in a site (even if they honestly weren't the best designs - they taught us the most). Instead of awarding one of them $1,000, we decided to award all five of them $300 each if they are willing to let us share their designs with you. We're now going to give the community our feedback on some of the entries and re-open the contest. We've upped the prize to $2,000 and we've opened it up to people outside the LetsRun.com community by posting the contest on 99designs.com. At that site, we will be providing feedback on the new designs as we receive them.
Based on your submissions, we're pretty sure we like the following:
Below you will find the designs that most inspired us with our comments about what we liked and didn't. If you take the criticisms below and add them to what we just wrote, you might just win the contest.
To enter the contest, you have to go to 99designs.com. PLEASE READ THE CRITERIA OUTLINED THERE. Please note that if you click on the images they will enlarge on a separate window.
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