I should have featured this redesign of O’Reilly Radar much sooner. It’s a great-looking, effective design that manages to be a little fresh and different without being difficult. (We’ve all seen examples that were quite different, without actually being good.)
They do need to clean up that XHTML, though. There’s no reason to have 133 errors, especially when most of them are as simple as converting a & to an &.
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No offense to the great content on O’Reilly Radar but this design doesn’t deserve to be in “unmatched style.” It is a workable design but hardly unmatched.