Sometime in June or July, Web Design From Scratch (a pretty good resource for web designers by the way) announced they’d be doing an impressive project: 50 Redesigns from Scratch. The idea was that they would take 50 sites (paid submissions and charities) and redesign them. Not only would the book be a before and after type of thing, but it would also explain the process. This kind of thing personally interests me because it’s a great learning tool. See how someone else does it, and then learn from it.
The site stated the book would be finished later in 2006. Every so often, I’d check the link above to see if there was any progress posted on the book, but alas, there never was. Today I figured I’d shoot over an email to see what the deal was. To my surprise, within an hour, Ben Hunt had responded. You gotta love the web community for being so accessible. Here’s his response
OK, it’s not *quite* the end of 2006….
The facts are: we’ve got about 12 redesigns done, so it’s not going to be published before the 31st! It will be in 2007 now, needless to say. We do have a publisher lined up, which is great. But I’m having to fit in the redesigns around other work, which slows life down.
I am aiming to write up the first 10 or so in PDF form very shortly. So please watch this space..
So there you have it.
