[PeterGriffin]

Thank you for showing us. I have two pieces of feedback.

1) The score isn't most important. The headline is. This is why the headline is in black, and the score is in gray. We don't come here to compare news importance, the site already does this for us by sorting. We come to read news. And having a small pale gray score replaced by a big attention-drawing glowing orange square goes against where the focus should be.

2) I do part time design and understand the temptation to style your presentation so it enhances your concept, like add perspective, drop shadows, and so on. My team does this when presenting business card designs to clients, because the actual graphic looks so simple and boring on a monitor, the client won't "get it", if we'd show it as is.

But a website isn't a 3D slab floating in space, so in this case the styling is a distraction from your presentation, not an enhancement. Keep it simple, when simple works.