15 Good Examples of Website Redesign

DesignAndrian Valeanu • January 16, 2012 • 4 minutes READ

Website redesigning is more complex than braining a new one, as there are certain unavoidable norms related to redesigning. It is like building something new from the scratches. Without affecting the functionality and content of the site, designers have to give it a different look. While redesigning a site, designers have to customize the sites, which is a challenging task. Still, redesigning has a preference among designers as the job motivates them to measure the level of creativity. A true designer will enjoy adding something extra to an already created site and coin appraisal for his creative spirit.

At the same time, it is also imperative to note that present design is adequate enough to match with level of content.  It takes a lot of time and planning and also involvement of designing experts to execute the plans properly. It becomes important to redesign a site when it is no more user-friendly and costs nothing to both the owners and the users. Thus, it is better to plan first and then go ahead.

Yellow pages are a good example of redesigning.  Retaining the similar old design appearance and the patent yellow and black color of the company, the new design has included few services to ease the task of the users. Localization is one of the many updated services gaining this redesigning more popularity. The contents included are relevant enough to provide information on locality basis services, available from yellow pages. Some of the old features have been replaced with more advanced services to populate the site. Inclusion of attractive images made the site ore acceptable, which was the sole purpose of redesigning yellow pages.

Blinksale is as a web application was in search of a web layout to optimize the sites conversion rates.  It also aimed to grow visitor’s interest on the tools working process and help them find out the sigh up box. With this aim, the redesigned site has placed the call to action button in the first page of the site.  Now it is easy to learn about the selling point of the app and know the product costs. This is a unique feature that differentiates Blinksale from other web apps.

Website Redesign Examples

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WordPress

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Yellow Pages

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Blinksale

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Plaxo

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Mozilla

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Smashing Magazine

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InstantShift

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Crazy Egg

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Apple

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CNN

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TechCrunch

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Mashable

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Think Vitamin

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