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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Anthony –
If you are reading comments this far down….
WIDGETS: I have a WordPress page, too, and I found out right away that different themes appear to wipe out widgets. Every theme seems to have a different mixture of what shows up. If you go back to the old theme, I believe you’ll find out the missing widgets show up again.
It’s more difficult to distinguish between articles now. I’d appreciate some sort of even/odd shading of articles. The white background is pretty hard on my eyes as well.
Oops! I meant to add this before posting:
Anthony, I think the paragraphs are too wide now for easy reading.
And the theme seems to present things as big blobs instead of the concise packets from before.
I voted “Hate It!” At least a 13 on a 1-10 scale.
GO TO A 3-COLUMN THEME!
THIS SUCKS.
REPLY: Of course it does, because you are running the old theme WUWT used to use on your blog…
Please go back.
If you leave it this way, I can read it across the room
and I don”t have a room to cross.
Fonts are difficult to read.
A –
That font is even more difficult to read. Too many words across each column and the vertical part of each letter is too thin.
LCD screens tend to be very bright — black text on a white background tends to be an “eyesore” (literally) for some. I turn my brightness down — but, that messes with photos and other wide gamut images.
I like sites that provide a non-bright-white background for text. Some go a dark background with light or white text.
If feasible, it might be worth a try to go to some less “in one’s face” background color. Although, even if you do, there are all those other “black on white” sites.
The black serif font on the cream background is easy to read and looks great.
For those who miss the smaller text size: press CTRL and use the scroll wheel in your mouse to reduce or increase the size. No big deal.
It will take three or four clicks backwards to get the desired size. Especially good for making your comments in the editing window. Clicking forward will increase the font size.
If you have not a scroll wheel in your mouse -well, get one soon!
The font used for text is sans serif – not so easy to read as a serifed font. According to something I read a long time ago when proportionally-spaced fonts on screens were the bee’s knees (or is it bees’ knees?), a serifed font makes it 5-10% easier to read.
This text contains H2O sub text.
This text contains mc2 sup text.
unordered list
Landfills accounted for approximately 22 percent of total U.S. anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions in 2008.
wastewater treatment accounted for approximately 4 percent U.S. anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions
In case noone has found them yet (I didn’t read through all the comments) The side bar links appear at the bottom of the comments section for non high def monitors (not wide screen format)
New improved picture is much better!
Now perhaps to tone this bright white down a little bit…
Huh? The font has just changed to serif!!! Either the moderator read my post and acted upon it immediately, or it’s my Windows XP SP3 that’s playing tricks on me (again).
2010 U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report
Superscript doesn’t appear to be working with the sup tag: MC2
REPLY: Never did AFAIK
Anthony. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
If no one has complained, why did you change it?
If you leave it like this, it will be hard for me to read.
Perhaps that is why whoever suggested this suggested this.
Your site is much too important to degrade.
PLEASE don’t change.
REPLY: Too late
More drivel from you know who hahaha
http://sc25.com/index.php?id=176
Always . Ah well let them have another guess, its pretty harmless anyway. Basically getting closer and closer the David Archibalds predictions all the time.
I prefer the old theme. The old font is easier to read. I have got a 24″ screen.
Not sure if the CA-assist plugin works anymore? (sorry if that has been covered already, I have not had time to read all the comments).
I don’t mind changing this, but I would prefer a more compact format. There is too much wasted space compared to earlier, IMHO.
In any case, please keep up the good work!
In the Firefox browser (and probably others)
Tools / Options / Content
you can choose your default font and background color
Wider view is better, in my opinion. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why they are using that constricted viewing window at CA. Question here is whether this is too wide. Screen has to tic from side to side for message writing.
Well, scrolling through large comment threads is going to take an awful lot more time. Was already unwieldy at times. It is kind of like reading the magnified text for people with bad eyesight. Or a children’s book. I can see the need for a change, but…
meh.
I don’t however wish to seem ungrateful or overly critical. I guess I will warm to it. I hope
Things to do:
-Add custom meta Description & Keywords for SEO
-The 2nd tittle on your header should be left as Html text for SEO
those for starters…contact me for help if you want.
Everything looks great, easier to read and esthetically pleasing, What would be really great and supremely useful would be a button that takes you to the actual comment box here and avoid the painful drudgery of scrolling through hundreds of comments.
Good job on the redo!
Excellent site. Prefer the new layout. Change the blue text (the banner line) to white so it’s easier to read.