Comments on: “MIX Online” site relaunched – raising the bar

By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:20:10 +0000

A site well done! The team who redesigned that site, really ought to give some tips to the people who make the blasphemous MSN sites, and a little help to the Windows Live sites. Not to forget Microsoft.com of course…

By: Refreshed Microsoft.com homepage design « TUWW - The Unofficial Windows Weblog

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:57:21 +0000

[...] Online wasn’t the only website getting a refresh this week as Microsoft.com’s own frontpage is experimenting with a little [...]

By: Scott Barnes

Scott Barnes — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:26:22 +0000

Well done Building 18!

This is great to see not only did the Visitmix Team dogfood our own products, but also worked really hard to ensure the design was complimentary to the mad skills of the Duncan + Erik + Team’s jupiter sized brains

*Poke Adam/Josh*.. how about a behind the scenes video on how it all came about.

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Scott Barnes
Rich Platforms Product Manager
Microsoft.

By: Refreshed Microsoft.com homepage design - istartedsomething

Refreshed Microsoft.com homepage design - istartedsomething — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:51:32 +0000

[...] “MIX Online” site relaunched – raising the bar [...]

By: Avatar

Avatar — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:26:44 +0000

@Duncan:

Yes of course. i meant the design and the design code. i think it is a truly cool design and website. it will be really interesting to have a look at the code at codeplex and i do hope it indeed is Expression Studio. it would be a good promo card to it. more considering it is for the Mix site no less.

But thanks for the detailed response. i guess now we only need the side from Erik to complement on this.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:02:00 +0000

Microsoft? XHTML Compliant? Woah!

By: Hank Drupal

Hank Drupal — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:42:14 +0000

Holy Moly!
Who is responsible for these colors? Did they smoke grass?

By: Duncan Mackenzie

Duncan Mackenzie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:17:46 +0000

@Avatar: We (Erik and I) are from the dev team, so we used Visual Studio … there is a lot of different moving parts to any dynamic website and I don’t believe anyone would use Expression Web to write the actual ASP.NET code, etc… The design was done by the Mix team themselves though (the guys on the about page) and I’m pretty sure they used a combination of tools that included Expression Web, probably photoshop or Expression Design as well … to start our coding process though, they delivered HTML/CSS/Javascript to us and from that point on all edits were being checked into source code control and as far as I know everyone was using Visual Studio.

@Chris Haaker … as Erik said, the design was done by different folks than C9, it was an attempt to match C9 in structure but to bring in the feel/style of TechNet. TechNet is not the most exciting site from a design point of view, and I think Edge inherited that corporate/reference library feel. There is nothing, other than time/money, stopping us from changing the design though, so jump on back to Edge and post your thoughts!

By: john

john — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:42:16 +0000

They simply have no taste!

By: Avatar

Avatar — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:47:04 +0000

@Erik Porter:

I have to ask, since i have not seen it mentioned. was this site done with Expression Web or how exactly it was made?.