Don’t worry readers, I’m trying an experiment. WUWT has looked the same for about 3 years, so I’m giving it a makeover. I’ve activated a newly designed theme for WUWT. This one has advantages over the old one in that it does a better job of supporting newer hi-res monitors such as the 20-24″ LCD/HDTV models that are becoming popular.
It also provides for larger text and images, better visibility of links, plus a few other features including a custom background which I’ll get to later.
In the meantime, let me know what you think in the poll below.
Sadly, no I still can’t offer an edit feature. wordpress.com hosting doesn’t support it.
UPDATE: Some readers say they can’t see links on the right side. They are there, try the horizontal scrollbar or set your monitor to a higher resolution. Also, wordpress during the upgrade nuked all my widgets on the right hand side, working to restore them -A
UPDATE: all the sidebar widgets are now restored. -A
UPDATE from CTM: Firefox users should install the CA assistant and greasemonkey.
http://climateaudit.org/ca-assistant/
This gives you full previews and some preview and formatting buttons.
Make sure to set your installation settings to not hide old comments or much will disappear.
Comment Tab:
- “Old” and “New” comments are defined by age in hours.
- You can hide all old comments (default: 48 hours). Hiding older comments is a great way to simplify your view of more intense discussions. (On Lucia and RomanM’s sites, the content of old contents disappears, but Author/Date remain. Nice!)
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Much better, larger text a definite bonus.
Nothing basically wrong with the new theme but I would prefer a format that is a little more dense, more words packed into a smaller space? I found the old format font size and column width to be a little more readable. I mainly read on laptops so perhaps I just need some new monitors.
Cleaner, crisper … way cool. So far, so good.
I’m missing the links down the side
REPLY: They are there, try the horizontal scrollbar or set your monitor to a higher resolution -A
Hope the links on the right side of the page get put back. I think the new format is easier on the eyes. Nice!
REPLY: They are there, try the horizontal scrollbar or set your monitor to a higher resolution -A
I really do like the new look. Very crisp and clean.
Geez … and I had just submitted a post and got this strange-looking WUWT screen coming back at me – persistent after several refreshes even!!
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I miss the quick links to recent stories, and the other related links that were usually located on the right hand side of the page.
It’s less crowded, which is good.
Hi Anthony,
There is no horizontal scroll bar, which I assume should appear at the bottom of the page. I like the inclusion of HTML information below the text box; this will tempt tech illiterates like me to try to improve our formatting.
REPLY: Running a Mac or an ancient PC or some off-brand browser or all the above? -A
A:
I see no links on the LHS except to the Archive. New look is OK.
B
Like the layout but miss the “home” blog summaries.
Like the look.
Will the usual quick links at the right hand side be available again, as they made checking things really quick.
Mark
They are there, try the horizontal scrollbar or set your monitor to a higher resolution -A
I still don’t see the links to the right side of the page, There is no horzontal scrollbar, just the vertical one, is it just me?
I am running Windows 7, using Google Chrome. My Win 7 settings are : DPI set to default “medium”, desktop resolution at 1920 x 1080. I don’t use the zoom feature of Google Chrome.
“supporting newer hi-res monitors such as the 20-24″ models”
Big Al will be very pleased I’m sure, the picture on his blog show him in front of 3 very big carbon footprinting monitors [rollseyes] – well, don’t do as I do, do as…
I am running a new PC, and I see no horizontal scrollbar and no links to the side either. And this is a desktop system with a good sized rectangular screen – very mainstream viewing platform.
Looks too much like realclimate across the top!
Hi Anthony,
I do use a two month-old Macbook Pro to look at your website. But I see that you’ve identified a problem. Thanks!
Don’t see a thing along the right side except the archive list. No scroll bars, bubkis. I’m using Safari on an iMac with OS X 10.5.8.
additional – this is an IBM compatible platorm, not a mac, using Explorer.
I do see a link to archives on the side, but nothing else. No links to any of the sites, that was such a useful feature of the old format.
Very Clean and the larger text is great but a bit to large. A majority of monitors are now landscape which could give you more space to play with.
where is the Arctic ice extension graph?
And the spotless sun?
🙁
Ironically RealClimate’s logo has an image of the Sun, which they deny is an actor in the climate, and yours does not. I like the look overall, but I am running Vista on a spanking new laptop with 16X9 screen.
it would be better with a lot less space between the main article heading and the article