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Congrats on the launch!
Here is a small tweak suggestion. The grid might be more reminiscent of a table structure if each cell were wider than it were tall. Here is an example cell.
This may not look right when applied to the whole page, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case it does.
I like the design - this is a suggestion for a minor tweak. The selected tab loses its 'table' look when it is selected but I think perhaps it would be better if it didn't. The 'Tags' tab below has what I think is the right look (presently it appears like that when you hover, so something slightly different may be needed for that)
I missed the "before" thread.
I'd say
If you compare SO, Programmers.se and SF with this, you get less information on screen.
Obligatory cheeky remark: the only thing missing is Comic Sans font
I haven't checked on my HTC Desire yet...
In spite of the color, the "accepted answer" checkmark looks too similar to a down-vote arrow, IMHO. Any inclination to make that icon slightly more checkmark-y?
Otherwise it looks great. Though I agree a bit about the vertical spacing... you could take quite a few pixels off the vertical join lines and still have roughly the same aesthetic. I'm no CSS guru so I don't know what's all involved, but with a few minutes in Photoshop I was able to knock 31 pixels off the top without losing any of the intended look (at least I don't think so). The maroon charlie brown divider is just to show that I reduced the width in order for the image to fit in this post by chopping out the white space. Paraphrasing someone else, 31px is 31px. :-)
Like the design but the color distinction between questions that contain watched tags and non-watched tags are not visible to me... I need to look very carefully to see a slight color difference. Removing the alpha from the background makes it more readable but the color is too pink-ish for my taste. I'd like to see that in a more orange-ish tone like the "Ask Question" button.
Overall, good work!
Inspired by Aaron's answer, I wondered if we should go even further with slimming down the title section, something like this:
Then have the tabs hold their outlines (like SF)
+1 for @gbn comment on small text.
I would also add the color of the text is a little difficult to read the question titles with the white background, to me. IE show the question titles as a blue color and FF shows a dark yellow. Increasing the text size might help.
Overall I like the design.
Something else I see, or not seeing, is the static bar at the top of the page is gone. The bar that showed what user you were logged in as and links to chat, faq, and your profile?
I think the site is clean but I really despise the blue logo for this site? It just looks really odd...whats up with the gears inside of it as well?
