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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Thanks, Anthony. I requested comment permalinks just a couple of days ago, and now here they are. You’re very responsive to your readers. 🙂
I agree with others that the text is overly large. I prefer for sites to leave the default text size, assuming that the reader has set their browser to behave the way they want.
Just a few notes:
Having the site header text (Watts Up With That?) separate from the site header picture and menu (the big earth picture) looks quite weird.
( Could be because I’m using Firefox 3.6.3?, but it looks broken in Chrome as well )
The line spacing in the articles and comments is huge, needs to be half of what it is.
There is no clear definition on the home page between separate articles.
(either the article headers need to be a more contrasted colour, or a line between articles would be nice)
The padding around the site content (gap between text and edge of white space) could be a lot less. (let the text use more area?)
Lastly, the text for the “leave a reply” area needs to be a darker grey, could get eye strain reading it lol.
I posted this on the wrong thread. Should be on this one. Is it possible to do a thread on the new photo at the top of the page? I am curious for many reasons. Please and thank you.
I have IE6 with a screen resolution of 1024×768 at work and it looks like crap – but it’s not like I can update my browser on a corporate system. At home I use Firefox 3.5 at 1280×1024 and it looks fantastic. I didn’t comment while at work because I had a feeling that I wasn’t seeing the true theme and I was right! The IE6 version doesn’t have the nice grey bars or shading down the side and the sidebar links are way down at the bottom beneath the posts. It looks downright amateurish, and yeah. A train wreck.
I say go with the change. People will eventually upgrade…
I like the wider columns.
Testing here for automatic line-spacing.
I agree. I wish
Fonts work fine now! looks great.
Nice new style.
The text of your by-line in your graphic heading is spaced to close making it harder to read.
I’d suggest not scrunching it in so much. Use more of the margin space or trim some verbiage or put it on two lines, and make the font larger. No point in people having to strain their vision reading fine point text. Maybe lose the bold depending on the other adjustments.
How do I embed videos or photos in the comments like some people are able to do? REPLY: You can’t without admin priviledges
I can’t afford to buy new everything right now. With the computer I have and the browsers I can run on it the new design isn’t coming out readable. It was great while it lasted. I guess this is one site I will have to write off.
REPLY: well you seem to be able to post comments. Try Google Chrome
I really like the new theme. I run 1900×1200 at home and it looks fantastic! However, like others have posted, I would like to see a divider between posts on the main page (e.g., a literal dividing line like in the comments section or a full block background color such as light grey for each post). Otherwise, it looks good!
As a blogger, like you Anthony, I believe the update is FANTASTIC!
I use Google’s Chrome and your site looks great. Thank you for the work you do and if only 13% (on the poll) aren’t happy with this update, SO BE IT! 🙂
Again, appreciate what you do and keep up the wonderful work.
Disaster at home. I’m running an old SUSE 10.1 and really ancient Firefox 2.0.0.5. I see the header image and a big white background taking up nearly the whole window. The scroll bar lets me pull in a second half, and that’s where the text. I had the same problem with mlb.com last year, but they changed something this year they’re okay again. I can’t upgrade Firefox without upgrading a slew of other stuff, and the SUSE update site went away ages ago.
This system has so much stuff going on (Apache, MySQL, Vantage Pro logging stuff) that about the only way I’m comfortable with upgrading Firefox is to build a new system, and I don’t have time for that any time soon. So I’ll spend time learning about CSS, maybe there’s a bug or something I can disable with http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ or look at other browsers or use a PC, or something or other.
One bright point – the text area has a gray background, much easier on the eyes for the most part!
REPLY: Or just buy a used PC from Geeks.com with Linux/Windows preloaded. Firefox 2.0? Sheesh. Sorry I got no sympathy for not keeping upgraded. -A
I like the bullets in front of each “recent post” (shouldn’t that be “… thread”, BTW?). Now I can tell where one ends and the next begins.
PS: I wish the list of recent posts were right underneath the search box, so I could see what’s new instantly by going to the top of the thread.
How do I embed videos or photos in the comments like some people are able to do? REPLY: You can’t without admin priviledges
Is that a change with the new format, I’ve gotten YouTube videos into comments in the past?
REPLY: just put in the Youtube URL, but you cna only put links to images as a URL not embed it -A
I like the new look. It’s crisp, clean and professional.
Thank you Anthony! I am an early riser but my dry eyes don’t work so well at 5:00 AM. The enlarged font is a godsend. Especially since I think, apparently, I have been posting on a site called WASP. No wonder I have been getting inquiries as to exactly when I was a WASP. My focus on weather didn’t seem to be much different from all the other posts, since women pilots are as interested in weather as Anthony is. Who knew?!?!?!?!?
E.M.Smith says:
April 27, 2010 at 10:50 am
Let me try. First with <pre>:
And with <code>:
Does this theme still handle a preformatted table such that it puts a scroll bar on it and lets the lines be quite long but you can scroll over to see them, or does it truncate like some others?Anthony, any chance of a comment preview with comment formatting buttons?
REPLY: No, no, and no. As mentioned like zillion times here and in the article itself, wordpress.com does not support it. I’d have to move to a private server, and as we’ve seen with Climate Audit, when news breaks, so do single box servers. – A
Reply: I have installed greasemonkey and the CA assist plug in and I get comment previews and formatting buttons ~ ctm.
I like the design, but for the top banner I’d suggest removing the italics on the tagline, make the font white, and use a font that will make the tagline text as clear as the links below it.
Nice work refreshing the blog. My experience with redesigns is that in 1.5 weeks, everybody forgets how it used to look.
I didn’t vote, I still haven’t made up my mind on the layout. But the larger text, my eyes thank you.
Myron, you can now get an E-Machine netbook from BestBuy for $229
The ‘Commentary on puzzling things” lone up top looks kinda cheesy… the type itself, I mean. The earth photo looks good.
If this double posts, my apologies, but my first attempt was just spinning its wheels.
I didn’t vote because I haven’t made up my mind on the layout. Now, for the text, my eyes like.
increased page width is good.
new layout has too much white though – try to increase density by reducing line height, font size, spacings.
fs
Looks great. Easier to read. Looks much cleaner.