I never thought I'd have the opportunity to act like a fashion designer on HN, but here it is: It's that way because they want it—Jeffrey Zeldman and the ALA t

I never thought I'd have the opportunity to act like a fashion designer on HN, but here it is: It's that way because they want it—Jeffrey Zeldman and the ALA team. It's their playground. It looks like that because it's striking. Gets the people going. Made you look. Got you mad. It breaks the mold of traditional website design: | Logo | Nav | |----------------------| | Content | | Additional info | | Editorial info | ...and replaces it with the vertical design of book pages, with some clues from magazine design (like the header that's only partially shown). Ever read a magazine that had text on the page margins? There's a place for purely functional design, and there's a place for experimental design.