We are proud to announce a for ImprovEverywhere.com. With all of the traffic and press we have been getting lately, it was time to spice things up around here. We’d like to personally thank our designer Ken Newell for his hard work on this new site. Ken charged us only $4,000 for his design (which is half of his normal rate.)
Things are going to be “under construction” around here for the next couple of days as we work out the kinks and give the tires a kick or two. Bear with us. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your feedback on our new look. Leave us a comment below.
UPDATE - As of April 2, 2008 we are no longer using this new design. It ended up only working for us on April 1. If you missed it, here’s a screen shot of the redesign. And below you can see some of the super cool animated gifs and icons our redesign featured.
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JUST FOR FUN
Only $4000 for this?
BARGAIN!
First you steal my favorite Jazz ensemble’s name and now you blatantly rip off their web design. What’s next, HIPP?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HILARIOUS i love it!!
Nice april fool’s!
Seriously, HIPP, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING????
You forgot to put up an obnoxious flash banner XP
Dude, how did you get that picture of the world to SPIN like that?! IT’S TOTALLY DA BOMB!
Love it! Thank goodness you guys got over that whole snafu regarding the old jazz ensemble whose name you stole from last year!
$4k is not bad at all. Look forward to seeing how it all ends up.
-Jenny
BTW, am I still supposed to be standing here frozen at Grand Central or can I move now?…
Where’s the pop-up banner> And wait, no tag??
Quite frankly, it’s not a very good design. I hope this is an april fool’s joke.
I HAVE SOM BAD NEWS FOR YOU YOU GOT RIPED OFF BIG TIME!!!!!!!!! THIS DESIGN SUXXXXXX! TEHE! UNDERCONSTRUCTION BANNERS ARE LIKE 1990 OR SOMETHING! WHAT ARE YOU MYSPACE SIKE I LIKE YOU GUYS SIKE YOU SUX!!!!!!!!!
The Comic Sans in #FF0000 is sublime. But how did you achieve that striking “embossed” look in the background image?
Hahaha. Cute.
Oh my god. I am so gullible. Just like last year, I forwarded the message to someone else before clicking on the link.
Do it again! Next year!
You’re all fools. In april.
This is an APRIL’s FOOL joke right
April Fools? I hope?
I am SHOCKED and DISMAYED by the complete lack of blinking text. What were you thinking?! If it’s not blinking, it’s not 1996.
hilarious as always! Happy April 1st, Fools!
needs some midi, and how about a improv web ring!@
Nice April Fools joke. Wouldn’t have been suspicious except for last year’s prank.
I believed you at first, and then thought, no way. This design is awful, so 1996. Great April Fool’s joke!
NEED MORE CONTRAST btw black background and grey?? text. Have laptop on highest setting and still hard to read.
Also, menu tabs get lost in business of photo background at top. Crop photo above the menu, so tabs easy to read.
Thanks! Can’t wait for the next NYC Mission!
Oh my, my my….. This site…is GENIUS!!!! lol…not (borat voice) High-Five on this joke of a re-design lol.. my eyes burn!!!
yay!!
Very nice! It’s got a 1995 Geocities feel to it. I like!
Not enough flashing cyan marquees!
I think if you made the background an animated gif it would look a LOT better. It’ll probably cost an extra $1000 but it’d be worth it. Also I really think your logo should use your new name- “Humor In Public Places” or the shorthand Humor PP
BTW, you totally had me for a second there. I haven’t been to bed yet so in my mind it’s still 3/31 ^_^
You need more blink tags. I mean, how are you supposed to really “catch the eye” without blink tags? Sigh.
if there had been ten flashing YOU’VE WON banners around it would have been like a time warp back to the nineties. I appreciate the cheap .gifs though. The internet needs more .gifs.
awesome
I heard this company called Futurewave is coming out with some vector animation tools for the web called “Splash”. You should look into that. I saw it on CNET TV.
hi kunal!
You’re driving me crazy! I’m in an earlier time zone and I fall for this year after year! It’s still March where I live.
I don’t like it so far. The black in the back ground is kinda putting me off :-(
I can’t believe you’d blatantly steal my gobbling mailbox graphic without asking Charlie. Its bad enough to not ask for my help, but to steal is so not cool.
I’m loving the 1998 look with the obnoxious MIDI playing in the background. Excellent.
Nice scheme! I’d like to apply it to my Gmail Custom Time feature when it finally shows up.
I saw this post all bare and out of context in Google Reader, then thought “Oh, cool, I should check out what the new design looks like.”
This has to be the hardest I’ve ever laughed while Hazy Shade of Winter has been playing.
Man, the dollar really is weak–if this is all you can get for $4,000?! maybe you should try 4,000€!
the flashing rainbow bar under ‘food court musical’ is a nice touch i think. it really brings the design together.
I guess full price would have gotten a scrolling text marquee, blinking text and maybe one of those “cat tearing through the page” images.
Thanks for the Under Construction notices, but i think it looks fine already.
I do hope you plan on adding a guest book, though.
Wait! I just saw the scrolling text.
How about adding a Comic Chat chatroom?
I guess the only other thing missing is one of those cool mouse cursors with fireworks, or a clock. Yes, a clock. Totally!
Primo Bitchin’ Dudes!
I still miss the 2002 version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020602215833/http://www.improveverywhere.com/
For $4000 I am amazed that you didn’t get a hit counter. How are you ever going to be able to do any detailed analysis of the viability of the site without being able to see how visitors you have gotten?
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I really think this has to be an April Fool’s joke…if not…well, better luck next time.
Am sending you some nice harp and strings music I recorded today in our elevator. It will really complete the sophisticated feel of this effart.
GOLD!!
Improv on your web site, living up to the “We create scenes” motto even online!
Brilliant! A+. I love it =)
…too bad its just a cheezy April Fools joke =(
Yeah, its pretty good. I think that the site needed an update! Can’t wait to see the finished product.
Thanks for all of the advice so far guys– I’ve been forwarding it to my designer and more than a few of your suggestions have ALREADY been incorporated into the new design (though I’m having to pay up for these new features.)
Oh damn, not Comic Sans! PLEASE! NOT COMIC SANS! I BEG YOU! *runs screaming*
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…good joke ;)
It took me a second. XD It’s not april fools over here yet.
Pretty hilarious. It toom me a little while to name the song, which was embarrassing, but I liked it none the less.
I got a kick out of reading the comments of the people who thought it serious.
this is awesome! I want something like this!!!!111one
This design is pathetic. Where are the animated GIFs in the background? Where is blinking text? A real disappointment if I’ve ever seen one.
Haha
Happy April Fools :)
Wow, it looks really great! The new design definitely reflects how far IE has come in recent years!! I really like the music too.
Just a suggestion: earth rotates counter-clockwise with respect to the North pole, so you might want to fix the spin on the planet just to be accurate.
This site really looks awesome after the revamping.
I think you need more “under construction” banners though just so we know. Hope that helps.
Where are the animated flames? although I understand you want to make site load reasonably fast for us still using 28.8 modems. Props to the designer.
Wow, this is fantastic! My favorite is the Ugachaka baby - an eternal classic!!
Just noticed the new smiley face cursor. Love it!!!
Hee hee. Great April foolz joke :-)
I wasn’t sure until I saw the dancing baby. Good One! : )
LOLOL! I saw it and I thought “are you kidding” and then I was like, “oh..yeah they are!” Good job guys!
LMAO. Nice. Not as good as last year’s prank, but nice.
My work at deobnoxification of the net in FireFox is pretty bulletproof so when I first came here, I sez WTF. Just another ugly site. Then it dawned on me what today is.
With great trepidation, I knocked the dust off of Exploser and fired it up.
Oh
My
Gawd!
This is a veritable catalog of web.obnoxiousness. I’m having flashbacks to Y2K.
BTW, did you know that this page takes over 400 seconds to load at 56k?
Please change the background back to lighter one. It’s very difficult to read white lettering on black background.
Thanks in advance, and keep up the good work
You replaced the mouse cursor. That’s so awesome! I didn’t even know it was still possible to do that. Oh, Cometcursors—I don’t miss you at all…
Haha, nice! Too bad you didn’t get a screen-wipe transition feature included for the $4,000 — those really set a website apart!
Rock on, IE… Rock on.
April Fools, right? You got me!
Nice, I remember last year you guys claimed that the name improve everywhere was already taken and you had to change your name, but this is a very amusing website, I love the music choice!!!
Ahh.. Nice classic design guys! I love a little nostalgia..
OMG!!!?!! you guyz r da BOMB!! that dancing baby is soooooooo cute!!!!!!!!
i have NO suggestions the cite is PRRRFICT as is!
DONT EVER CHANGE!!!
k-bye,
xoxoxoxox
spacedani (LOL)
:)
p.s. u guyz r sooo funny!
oh my god! you scared the hell out of me…
Please say it is indeed an april fools joke >.<
BTW what was last years joke?
I Love the one you had like 3 days ago.. don’t go changing it… ever O_o
Wow, i’ve never seen yellow on my pc before. State-of-d-art design. Well done guys
This is an AWESOME April Fool’s joke!
I love the elevator music. lol.
hilarious. my favorite is the dancing baby under “just for fun”
The retro site rocks! Good work!
I think it displays a certain simplistic charm, with a clearly pro-environment stance yet at the same time is still a damning indictment of the gulf between rich and poor…
Love the cursor! Happy April Fool’s Day, y’all! Thanks for making the world a great place to laugh. XOXOXO
I don’t believe you. Look at the date–April 1.
What a blast from the past! Man, these are the websites I saw when I first started going online!
But, god, I fell for this so hard! Man… great, now I feelz teh stupid.
Oh, and just to prove how stupid I am, I wouldn’t have gotten it unless I read the comments. (I wasn’t around for last year’s, so I wasn’t prepared! T__T)
Love the tune….I didn’t read a thing though….That dancing baby on the right, had me too distracted.
Mama M
This place has really gone downhill
I had wondered where all my animated GIF’s and Midi’s had gone…
I am ok with the change (I liked it the way it was)… but the music doesn’t go away when you watch a video.
The comic sans is my favourite bit!!!11 :D
Happy 4th month of the year!
This cracks me up! I barely knew that you could build a site like this anymore. Happy April Fools!
All I can say is that the site new feels like MySpace vomited on it.
The only solution to this is to change the font color to #000000.
I know that Ken will probably charge you another $200 just for that - you let him know that you deserve the “retuning customer” discount - tell him I said so.
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Happy April Fool’s Day. Thanks for the Smile.
heh .. I’ve got a bridge I’ll sell ya for only $1000 … that’s half it’s normal price
lol last year’s was better!
i turned on the computer this morning just to see what april fool’s trick u guys would do this year , lol, how sad oh well, i quite like the uh dancing baby down there, nice touch!
haha.. you guys almost got me.
but seriously.. i know some bands that will play that benefit gig so that you don’t get sued by mcdonalds!
Wow, I am totally downloading this song and listening to it on my ipod hahaha nice one guys:D
Just For Fun Section = ROTFL
Dude, this is really lovely, but you know what would really make it POP? A “Rick Roll” pop-up series. It might be worth the extra cost…
Yep, happy April Fool’s to you guys too!
The background isn’t nearly flashy enough. You guys got ripped off.
Ha, you had me for a sec.
It’s like a Geocities page from about 1998!
The smiley cursor is genius - do you think the designer would give me the same deal? I know a 10 yr old budding designer who could do some nice sparkle effects for cheap.
mmmm….. nostalgia…..
AWESOME.
April FOOLZ!
Hehehehehe.
Nice one, guys!
This is what the internet was made for. Al Gore would be proud.
It’s about time you got this site fixed up.
I am totally going to send this to my friends on e-mail!
THIS WEBSITE SUCKS IT!
xoxo,
Katie L
I especially love the blinking rainbow bar!
Oh, and for once I wasn’t fooled. Feel better about that!
It’s sad how many sites really look like this.
Think you managed to cover all the bases, great April Fools :)!
CSB
Takes me back to 1995. I think I had a page like this.
Happy April Fools.
I can’t load all the advanced graphics on this site upgrade with my 64K 120Mhz IBM AT, even WITH my Hayes 300K Baud Modem and 80286 co-processor… do you have a low-res or a text-only version so I can see what things you groovy improv dudes have planned for pranks today????
Ick! Happy 4/1
Wow, I didn’t know WordPress could look THIS good!!!
Hilarious! You must have seen Strong Bad’s Guide to web designing.
You’re missing the little animated under construction guy! And how about an animated gif for a background image, too? That would be sooo high-tech!
Nice April Fools joke. The comic sans is a great touch. It’s like garnish–a tall sprig of rosemary poking out of a garishly plated meal circa 1997.
Brilliant.
I like the new design. Kinda retro in a 1998 style!
Darn it. You got me! My first reaction was it’s bad, but not that bad! I guess Myspace has lowered everyone’s standards.
Wow it looks really great!
The mailbox is eating my letters!!!
Awesome new design. Not enough websites use alternating cursor graphics these days!
Haha WOW. I just scrolled down and saw the dancing baby.
This design should stay for that one feature alone.
I was going to say that the redesign was only worth $3500 max. But then I saw the comet cursor. That just brings it all together. The fire gif is also pretty phat.
LOL! It’s like the 90’s threw up all over the site. Loves it!