Love the retro style, reminds me of when I first started playing with HTML in 1994…

Please do not revert back to the old style on April 2nd!

Today is April 1st, isn’t it?

Love this style. Look nice.

Fantastic design ;-)

Next step smoke signals.

1st of April. (is that a spoiler)

I’m going blind.

This will win a couple of design awards I am sure :)

To be honest, I’d be happy if this stayed true
This is awesome!

Retro style Looks Great, but all the Time? A Mixturen will be Nixe. You are joking.

You know, it’s not often that I get to see a site with the same look and feel in a ‘modern’ overweight browser as I get with elinks! (is it bad that I had to go through the trouble to start X just to see what changed?)

I need to stare at the screen for 30 seconds. After that when I close my eyes I can read the page.

“list-style-type: binary;” <3

Dude! This is the best design ever!! :D

I love you fellas!

back to 1990’s ?

Here is the funny thing: I use this color-scheme on a daily basis. In Firefox, I am able to switch between the regular color-scheme which the website prescribes and the color-scheme which I prescribe with black background and green text. At first, I was looking at this page with my scheme. Then I looked at it with the website’s scheme. I thought, “What is the difference? Oh, there is some red text.” I honestly love this color-scheme and try to implement it as much as possible on my computer. It is so much easier on my eyes, and there is so much less light-pollution from my screen. How much light do you really need to come out of your monitor in order to functionally know what is happening? Also, green is my favorite color. Unfortunately, some websites are not optimal for this scheme, e.g. I cannot directly see the search-bar on . I wish that more websites would be designed so that switching to this high-contrast color-scheme would still show everything which should be there. Even if it is just for one day, I am glad that the good people of the Raspberry Pi Foundation used this color-scheme and font-style. I appreciate it very much.

Great work on the design… you have officially broken every design rule.

Hmmmm…Just getting a Text Only page.

Linux Mint 16, Chromium Browser

Please tell me this is a sick April Fool’s joke. This is hideous!

Nice Site!!! BTW Happy April Fools

Is this all tables too?

Excellent! Please don’t revert. Of course I find the two colours a bit flash, a real terminal only shows green on black.

The only thing that keeps med from thinking April Fools, is the minor details in the design. I first looked at the site from a cellphone browser, and I saw numbering in binary form. Through a desktop browser, there are bullets and decimal numbers. I really do not hope that you have time to spend on such detail on a design that only shows in one day.
Please keep the design, I got totally retro, and started to think back to the good old days of hand coding HTML, having only work on Mozilla, as mentioned in a prio reply, mid 1990’s.
Good work!

Wow hoe cool is this…ons step foreward two steps back…2014.4.1? Whhahahahahaha

I like it for the next 365 days!!!

Err………When I see the webside I feel as if I were back to the ancient.What a April Fools trick! Happy !

I love it! Please keep

My wife will love it. I will no longer spend money buying all of these obscure electronic components to make the great looking projects presented on the website.

Ahah it’s wonderful :D

Wow.

I’m gonna keep the html and css for posterity. It’s so fast on my Blackberry browser. Who needs Javascript and Responsive Web Design, when you can instead party like it’s 1995?

(Seriously, keep it as a style you can choose from a menu, alongside the usual Web 2.0/rounded button malarkey :-p )

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Hmmm… I have to admit at being a little disappointed how the ‘new site’ does not reflect modern developments. I was really expecting that the site was going to be 3D navigable and make use of a typeface completely rendered from Minecraft blocks.

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I Like it also if it is for the April Fools’ Day

ASCII Experiment…

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I once had a P1 133 MHz. This site looks like what fell out of it when I shook it very hard.

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Love it Ben. Good job. Hee hee :-)

I guess this “New Design” is just an Aprils Fool!

THIS is SCANDALOUS….
Where is the beautiful preceding site ?
I’m considering this new design like an outrageous result made only to annoy us….
Let me tell you, little RaspberryPi webmaster, I Don’t like your new design… it’s like a Green Shrekious monstruosity…

Thanks not a lot for all…

Sébastien

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Awesome! Definitely a step forward!

Much April fools

Nice work – but the screen update was way too fast. Can’t you emulate good old 1200/75 ‘Prestel’ baud rates. And What about restricting everything to a 1K page – like the BBC B Mode 7 (Teletext) screen?

This new site is no good, I have to say goodbye… I’ll be back when the old site is back.

Is there a prize for noticing the kitteh picture hidden by the stylesheet?

I wish all website had the sense of humor that they have in Pi Towers!

What’s even better is it’s made my monitor into a touchscreen.

fine : No more X : lynx in console.
Uses less memory and very much quicker.

Admit it – the web server has been replaced by an Arduino, hasn’t it?

Blowing the dust off Lynx, takes me back to the bad old days :-)

I like it :) 1/2 Wishing that it’d stay like this. Dont think it would attract many new customers though… lol

Pretty cool, would be nice if you could convert new pictures to ASCII graphics when you publish articles, that would be awesome. But of course it’s 1st of April. Actually I still develop UIs using ASCII chars in new products, keep it simple is good. Keep the good work going…

Awesome design! You forgot to add the words “Don’t Panic!” in friendly, large, green letters on top of the page.

Love it, disappointed to see four digit years. Please insert Y2K bug!

It’s funny how much faster this loads. Reminds me of my university days exploring the net on a Dec using the Lynx browser.

Brilliant – very quick to download and read! Wish other websites would follow your lead. Gopher lives.

I think it’s lovely.

Hahaha very nice, but you missed comic sans and blinking texts haha :D regards!

This is truely brilliant! Can you keep this layout around as an optional way to view your site? Please do!

Ha ha, very good. Best April 1st joke so far. :)

Need to take off my vt520 terminal from dust and use it with lynx (on my linux machine)

Love it!

This new website is juste AWESOME!
I am sure it will bring a lot of new users!!!! :D

Sorry, cannot verify taste of electric limes on iPad 3 – is this feature only available on BBC micro era computers?

What a great surprise. Love it. I forgot it was april the first so I was really taken in :)

cool.
Keep this style forever.
Only this comment entry form looks a little bit too futuristic.

Reminds of watching star wars asciimation back in the day!

This style makes me feel twenty years younger :-)

Ok..This is the correct way to work..

Halp! I can’t find the blinking cursor! :-(

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GlassGiant.com

Hey, nice and clear and easy to navigate. None of these excess confusing gaphics.
Reminds me of the web before the “graphic designers” started messing things up.
Pity it’ll revert at midday – or perhaps tomorrow.
Frail Loop

Hackaday want their design back!

I was a bit dismayed not finding a copy of Sierra’s Kings Quest, otherwise a near perfect ‘next gen’ offering. (a little teardrop falls)

Fantastic, very appropriate style!

Love the new site, but what’s the funny colour that is not green or black. Never had that in my 3270 days. Dem were de days ….

I used to be the envy of the office with my orange terminal – ooohhhh not green!

Mooncake knows what I’ve done. Love it! ;-)

I licked it. They lied. :(

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Awesome design!

I bought a Raspberrypi just a few days ago, running my own Website with PHP and mysql on raspberry pi now, programming Java, C and phython on it and I also did already some electronic stuff with it (blinking LEDś etc.) .

I tried most of it just with nano and Terminal window, so this site is exactly the feeling you get out of Linux!

Please keep it not just for April 1.! The design an the site will go viral!

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Red and green text!!! I see you’ve chosen the deluxe option. Like it :-)

Brilliant April Fool!! For Bens next trick a port of the original Elite perhaps?

Horrifyingly, we’ve actually had a few emails complaining that we have lost our minds. Lesson for today: not everybody has a calendar.

Love it! :-D Believe it or not, I have a friend whose actual website looks very much like this (though he did consent to using proportional fonts). For an intriguing taster, try: http://www.zyra.org.uk/nearrat.htm
I’ll have to keep a copy of the style info for this one!

It renders so quickly! :)

Great Design. Pls. make a redesign of the favicon in ASCII Art also ;-)

Unfortunately when you launched the new site you appear to have lost the images.

Here’s the images that have been dropped from the recent posts:

Quake III bounty: we have a winner!

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It’s a bit too modern for my tastes. Could it just be green? The red bits could be bold green, perhaps. I dislike all these modern colours. I had to buy a colour LCD screen when my VT100 packed up last year, but sometimes I put green Quality Street wrappers over my glasses to remind me of better times.

What new design?

(ps. I am using elinks, the web browser of choice for middle-aged old-school colour-blind terminal nerds.)

(pps. any plans to start a gopher server?)

PLEASE can we keep this site??

It loads sooooo fast!!!

So this was your April 1st gag for this year? After things that came up on the forum the other aday, I was expecting it to be a fake web shop where people could buy single BCM chips… :)

looking forward to going back to the future!

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back again !
I have attached my VT520 terminal to a raspberry pi (instead of a PC as I have written down here before) with an USB->Serial converter. Works like a charm and this site is really responsive :) You rock guys !

Ok, I must be really old, cos although I appreciate the day, and the sense of humour, I REALLY REALLY wanted to find something on here. Do I have to wait until 12.01 today or shall I hack into the old webpages?
ummmm….

ps, the spell checker is playing April Fools too, it wants to spell humour without an O !! :)

Well done all, looking forward to next year

Looking at this (new?) site, makes me feel like the kid in War Games………its a film from 1983 for those who didn’t know.

april fools? … Strangly I Love it …. so the jokes on you !

The new website is a mess unreadable, I thought it was April 1st joke.
No way a useful site for publishing information horrible not for printing

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike….

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Excellent idea – I really miss sites filled mostly with information. Now days sites all filled with technology (flash, java etc.) that covers the lack of information. Very good move. Although personally I would changed the color theme.

I’m pretty sure this is Art.

Awesome site, will this be made available via Teletext please!

I hope this is only an April fools joke as in a way it is neat but to look at this all the time would suck!!

It is afternoon now so the joke is on you :)

This will get ruined when things return to normal, but here goes:

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I’ve got a couple of shell scripts if anyone wants those.

I think all my browsers are broken!
Had a look in the early hours this morning and thought “Is it me, must cut down on the gin?”
Very pretty!

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Is it true that the Foundation bought Sinclair and will soon release the Sinclair ZX 3.1416?

This site is now being hosted on a Raspberry Pi Model A running Apache on a 256 Megabytes SD card.

It looks great! I am one of these old guys, which started computing with a Commodore VIC 20 and after that a C64.

At last – a version of the website that loads quickly via my 500kbps village “broad”band!

Great look! I say keep it.

The new website design isn’t migraine/trance inducing at all! Especially as you have added the black to ensure following the ‘red and green should never be seen without something else in between’ rule.(some say except on an Irish Queen as a qualifier)

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love the Darlek and Tardis

Happy April Fools’ Day to all at Raspberry Pi

I like the new distraction free design! My only complaint would be that the font needs to be a little bigger!
If only all websites loaded this quickly :-)

April Fools jokes are only supposed to be for the morning – I thought

My eyes are crying blood.

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April Fools jokes are only supposed to run to midday.

Good joke however – and I think you should keep it as an optional “fast reading” design :)

About time somebody fixed all this internet glitz and lens flare! This brings back memories of the 70’s sitting in the library on a Hazeltine 1500 with an acoustic modem connected to a CDC Cyber mainframe. 300 baud rules! Young whipper-snappers with their fancy graphics and wireless…. Now get off my lawn!

Love it, the new design really emulates Raspberry Pi.

Hm, unfortunately my browsers shows no difference?! I’m surfing with links2 and elinks.

Can we at least have used hex instead of binary? The comment numbers are already becoming unwieldy…

you had me going until I realised the date – it is a joke – right?

I don’t feel well.

I was really hoping that the redesign would reflect the state of the art in education technology, with features like: blink, marquee, layout with tables, and Comic Sans.

Sigh. I guess the geeks have taken over.

Ah does this take me back to the prehistory of personal computing! Of course, my first computer terminal was a Frieden Flex-o-writer.

At least you resisted the temptation to use cyan on blue.

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At least keep this as an optional theme!

Good joke – If there is any petty cash left for another bounty maybe use it to ask for a port of a standards compliant browser that can run javascript – perhaps there is an android one that can be ported?

Aw, nertz… The paper tape has jammed in the 33-ASR, again.

actually, once you get your eye in its not so bad

Finally, i can use Lynx to check this site without losing anything! ;-)

I think this new layout is terrible… Look dude, Green neon font on black background (anything with blackbackground) hurts my eyes when I have to read more than one sentence. Being honest and real, not just a hater. Rule number one of HTML design layouts… never, NEVER use black background for text. It should be something where the user doesn’t have to strain their eyes trying to read it. Fix it please. Thanks.

Dear sirs at Pi Towers:

I must say you chose the worst day for introducing the new web site. Now everyone thinks this is some kind of a fool´s joke!

Sincerely yours,

Me.

PS: Is it true that upcoming Pi Display will make everything look like this?

The new design is most excellent. I love the taste of electric limes.

This look is awesome!!!
I hope it is here tomorrow ;-)
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Works great with lynx in a not graphics terminal.

Display’s nicely on my trusty old 286!

Very nice!!! I love ASCII art and this retro style.

The new web site template looks like completely and utter garbage. Don’t do this to my eyes. April Fools huh? Not funny man.

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Very nice! Don’t change it back…saves lots of MB’s…

Great wesite but you forgot to use the flash attribute for the headline fonts.

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Sorry. I absolutely don’t like this new theme.

Can you delete that?
The image was too wide :-)

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You have to fix that comment dialog box. my good old hercules graphics card can’t deal with it. The red color has to go to. I can’t buy new hardware every 30 years because of your modern fancy design ideas!

YOU LIAR! my screen doesn’t taste like lime!

(would be nice if you keep this theme as selectable in the future, thinking about double theme site)

Oh I didn’t notice the comments were in binary….

Finally a good designed website

wow!

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Happy April Fools Day!

Wow! This is the fastest loading page I’ve encountered today. Keep up the good work!

Love this look. Love the little touches everywhere.

I’ve been trying to tell the University this is the design that they need, none of this css3 trans-rotational stuff !

I will be honest with you… this new design just crashed my MacBook Pro… !?!?

wow this site is messing with my monitor big style .. firefox and linux mint !…

I just love this! Listening to the whining and moaning of the newer generation. Oh! The agony of fixed point Courier, the lack of graphics! Hey, 30 years ago, everything looked like this. Wow, this is like playing high-frequency noise to urge youngsters to move on, leaving us old programmers with peace and quiet. Gee, everything looks this green on my old Apple ][+ monitor; what’s the problem! Now, all I need to do is run my Pi camera’s feed through VLC’s asciiart renderer, and all will be well with the world…

How about RaspberryBBS like on old dial-up days? :D

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______ |__U__| / \//
/ FIDO \ _//|| _\ /
(________) (_/(_|(____/
(FidoNet ASCII logo)

I feel kind of sorry for web designer who wrote the code. His eyes must have been burning after looking at those colors. Anyways, nice one on April fools. Keep the good work up!

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What’s all this talk about red and green, all I see is grey? Hum, maybe I’m color blind?

Too fast! For real authenticity we need to see the characters appearing one at a time …

My RetroPI is now Retro!

Really love the new website….

compliments to the designer.

Please leave it just like this!

#######################################
#What has changed? way I see the same #
###################EOF#################

Very clever. Now can we have the proper site back please?

Loving the new look :)
Nice artwork in some of these comments!
Good Job

Well.. , The new website design save 90% more on my smarthphone

Love what you did with the place, LOL!

Awesome look for April Fools Day

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| |_| |/ _` | '_ \| '_ \| | | | | |_| |/ _` |/ __| |/ / | '_ \ / _` | |
|  _  | (_| | |_) | |_) | |_| | |  _  | (_| | (__|   <| | | | | (_| |_|
|_| |_|\__,_| .__/| .__/ \__, | |_| |_|\__,_|\___|_|\_\_|_| |_|\__, (_)
            |_|   |_|    |___/                                 |___/

If only craigslist.co.uk had switched to a heavyweight design for the day…

Love it. Takes me back only very fast! Icing on the cake would be a flashing green cursor.

It actually does taste “of electric limes when licked” Another first for the cyber community!

hahaha remembers me to the old 2400 bauds/s modem times (or 300 bauds/s acustic-coppler) and BBS servers (can not remember what BBS stands for)

have a nice 1’st april!

Not appealing and can not make which one is link , if the site is running of Intel 386 , then this what i can expect

You guys do realise you’re completely mad, right ? Brilliant, but mad !

The new website look reminds me fondly of my Timex/Sinclair computer that I assembled many many years ago. I still have it in a box somewhere….

Great look, easy for the eyes. Brilliant

Great!!! Good old days are back :-)

That red is maybe still too modern, all green would be better.
Use bold or something ?

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Quite brilliant, especially for red/green colour blind peeps

Congratulations! I really love the new design! And i am a true fan of the Raspberry Pi! Hope to read great news round here!

toooooo bad

I love it!

Great design. Any chance that the date/time stamp could be printed in binary too?

Just found a small issue. The trademark rules state: “You may not use our …. website design”. Some people out there have to change their web pages now! : – )

A text only site is very much desirable, but bold red/green over black is too much. You need to use pastel colors to ease off the eyes. I have had to stop reading at comment #73. Too much pain!

But please keep the text only option alive! Love the ASCII pics, too!

The reasons why displays no longer look like this is:

a) They no longer need to; technology has moved on.
b) They are really hard to read. Proportionally spaced serif fonts are designed for readability.

Why this design may be nostalgic, your target audience for RPi includes youngsters who have never used a floppy disk – the nostalgia is misplaced.

Amongst the comments I have read, I may be the only nay sayer, but I suggest everyone else has fallen for the form over function and not actually tries to read this for any length of time (the reason I have not read *all* the comments!).

Please can you supply the ip address of the Gopher server – I don’t seem to be able to find it on Veronica.

hmmm it’s like “alien” site…..;-)

I don’t like it. I hope this is an April Fools joke. If it is, not a very good one.

Keep on scrolling down and enjoy a game of PONG!

I sure hope this goes away soon! It is not in keeping with the tenor of Raspberry Pi at all.

awesome!

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Ahh reminds me of scanning magazines for local BBS numbers writing down the serial protocols (8N1 usually) configuring my -shoe box sized- 2400 baud modem and hoping not to get engaged tone!

I guess it’s meant as April Fools joke… but honestly I realy like that Design. Can we keep it? Maybe as alternate design or something? :)

Everyone is adding ASCII art! MY TURN:

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Please keep this as an option. The old website was very hard to load from a pi…

For those concerned the design is too old-fashioned to appeal to the children the Foundation is trying to target, I’ve prototyped a more modern variant: https://pic.twitter.com/bhx6hSN293

Comments welcome

I agree this *would* be a nice option- as long as pix would load, and we could rightclick to save videos (which never seem to work for me; as of yesterday, all videos showed slow-motion juggling).

Opps. My beautiful ascii photo was mangled. Guessing who it was is going to be harder than originally planned!

Now, to make my day complete, I want to see a punched tape reader for the Pi :)

Nope, still tastes like tobacco smoke and bacon crisps when I lick it when viewing the mobile site.

SRLY?, I know that this looks neat but SRLY? did ou have to do that?!?!?!.

What was that early computer game where you had to put down the stick if you wanted to capture the bird?

I’m also reminded of my remote 110 baud Teletype access to the Carleton University computer in the early 70s. I telephoned their modem and captured the send tone. I then built a receive filter and send oscillator to save myself a 60 km drive.

Steve, I still have the Teletype and managed to punch some paper tape from my ‘Pi but I couldn’t read it in. The keyboard chatters continually and I’ve yet to check out the circuit. At the time I was trying to run a train set from the Teletype but I ran out of time. The project might still be listed here as PiTi.

This is not good for those who are color blind, it does not appeal to children, and no images. I’m sorry but 0 on the aesthetics.

Just for fun, I viewed this in Midori and found that both the bullet points in the header and the comment numbers are rendered in binary! I’m not sure how you managed this.
I saw this site briefly last night just after midnight and I must admit (since it wasn’t really April 1st yet) my first thought was “I know they said they were having trouble with the new site but this is ridiculous!”.
Well done and I can’t believe the people who 320 comments later haven’t got the joke – hint: it has been spelled out about 100 times.

Love it, but where I live April fools is “sooo…. Yesterday”

I thought My Browser was broke!
Does The April 1st Date have anything to do with the Design?

Happy New Year

Prehistoric garbage.

It’s just an April Fools day prank. I just read the Twitter feed.

Eben and Liz – I’m sooooooo glad you took my tiny, insignificant, earnest request last month to heart to make the site load much faster on a Pi, but this? This, I did NOT expect, no way, no how, no kidding, even after you said that a new design was coming soon. Little did I know … but what else is new? : D

I must now be vewwwy vewwwy cayhfuhl what I ASCII for in the future! How do you create an animated ASCII image in this format, anyway???

Ok, I have to admit, I reloaded the page a couple of times thinking something was wrong before I realized … very well done :-)

I wonder if the post-count will get up to 100000000 ? How long until the webserver runs out of RAM? ;)

I LOVE THIS NEW WEB DESIGN. WHY DON’T YOU KEEP THIS? THIS DOESN’T SEEM LIKE IT WOULD BE SOMETHING PERMANENT BUT PLEASE MAKE IT PERMANENT! I also love coming back to this website everyday!

HAHAHA,LOVELY LOVELY♪♪ We need more Kaomoji for this Comment :))

Hay guys :)
I love raspberry pi and I use it alot and actually when I saw the new about the design I wasn’t really happy and now when I see it it’s just ridiculous, I mean this is not a terminal window! website should have pictures with easy to read content! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t say this is not cool, I just say this is not really easy to read and it does not have pictures of the projects and etc.. that we used to see before, please go back to the original design :'(

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It’s a flashback for me to the 80’s when I used BBS and racked up lots of long distance charges calling various bulletin boards before the internet existed (in it’s present configuration.) Even BitNet and ArpaNet never looked so good.

How is it possible that ANYBODY didn’t immediately realize this was an April Fool’s joke?

And timing the actual release of the new site for the day after was brilliant. Nice work all – very clever! :-)

Specsavers once ran an April Fools ad for prescription windshields

AWESOOOOME :P Keep the Retro Site

Sorry I’m late to the party. This 14.4 modem is the pits. I’m saving for a 56k

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Just a heads up – if you want to access the Ascii stylesheet on tag archive pages you will need to adjust the URL parameters, Otherwise the Ascii stylesheet won’t be applied: http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=tag/python&fool=1

Sadly I missed this update on April Fools day but thank you for allowing us to preview this after the fact. Love the new website design Ben – its superb, well done!

Okay, so I appended ?fool to the URL and then everything looks green and rosy. But the moment I click on any link, it goes back to grey and white. Could the links be updated so green and rosy stays once enabled while navigating the site until you delete the ?fool from the URL manually?

Was this created using jQuery Terminal (I have visitors from raspberrypi.org)? Do you have screenshots of the site or working demo maybe?

good post Liz for sharing an wonderful web designs….

Kind of cool, cool. Very pondravilos.

when I run this website on my pi (model b) it takes an age to load!!!