Slate launches a redesign ...

September 29, 2000 1:54 PM

Slate launches a redesign ... but I think it's a little thin, content-wise.
posted by rcade (5 comments total)

Well, I dunno. While it may be low on content, the new "red X" style graphics are rather nice. I'd love to see this type of thing spread across the net.
posted by hijinx at 2:01 PM on September 29, 2000

I thought Slate said they would never be a mouthpiece for Microsoft... I guess they lied ;)
posted by gyc at 3:53 PM on September 29, 2000

So, their graphics server was down? Is this the launch of a new MeFi department?
posted by dhartung at 9:56 PM on September 29, 2000

Their whole site appeared to be down for more than five hours yesterday, displaying a default Microsoft IIS Web server page in its place.

As it turned out, the problem was due to a DNS error, and fixing those usually takes time because the change has to propigate throughout the Net. ECompany wrote a story about the downtime.
posted by rcade at 8:25 AM on September 30, 2000

Okay, see, the problem with that is that by the time I read the article ...
posted by dhartung at 12:46 PM on September 30, 2000