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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Mike M says @April 28, 2010 at 11:34 am:
I had the same issue with Breitbart coming up blank. The [temporary] fix that works for me is to click Command + to increase the screen size [Control +, I believe, on a PC].
Changing the screen size makes the page appear, don’t know why.
Anthony
How about including a number ID to each post?
[WordPress does not support numbered posts. ~dbs, mod.]
I’d make the headlines about 34% larger than the body copy; other than that, it looks good. 🙂
How about a feature that lets me quickly reduce the size of the font, etc. to what it was before.
LARGER is NOT better!!!!
REPLY: Already built into your browser. Try CTRL+Mousewheel or keyboard CTRL++ / CTRL – –
The larger typeface is fine, and easier to read, but there is way too much white space. Tighten the space between lines. I find myself looking for the next sentence or graph. The eye ought to flow there naturally.
Actually there is a hidden numbering system, the numbers don’t publicly display. With this theme, under the commentator’s name, the time/date stamp has a link with a comment number that goes right to that comment. Thus there is numbering.
But if you’re referring to a “1, 2, 3…” numbering scheme for the display of posts… Sorry, but that sounds way too boring for this site. 😉
You still have a link on the main menu named “Test”
I dislike this new theme even more than I did yesterday. I tried looking through some of the threads, but felt no urge to get involved and read on as I used to with the old theme. Seriously, Anthony, for me this is a big issue: I can no longer get my daily fix at WUWT because I can’t stand the layout. Too much white space, pale serifed text, general snow blindness.
Also, I never used to have to re-enter my name and email address every time I posted – is that something to do with the new theme?
Sorry to be negative, but you have asked for comments…
Sorry Anthony. I know it must have been a lot of work changing your website which I read avidly every morning but I find it MUCH harder to read. The print seems to be paler and the lines longer. There also seems to be less writing before one has to click the link to read more, which is annoying if I am in a hurry. The sidebar is smaller and harder to read also. I wish you would revert to your old format – I think you will lose readers with this one. It is MUCH harder to concentrate on.
Can’t seem to keep my “Name” and “Email” in the “Leave a Reply” boxes. Must reenter these for each comment now. Prehistoric IE6 software. (Not a big problem, I can read and comment; your change looks great.)
Looks fine on our regular computer, but my wife just kicked me off on to our old backup computer (while she does some actual work) running Firefox 2.0 on Windows 98, and the formatting is completely shot. I guess it’s time to upgrade, but it displays most sites just fine.
The new theme looks fine using Opera 9.25 so I guess I’ll have to use Opera instead of my preferred Firefox. It’s almost unreadable using Firefox 2, and it crashes my machine using IE6. I’m able to look at most other sites just fine on all three browsers.
I cannot get any other browsers for Win98SE, and newer versions of Windows are too bloated to run on this machine, which I hope to be running Linux on when I get the time. If I hadn’t spent 5 months looking at Climategate I’d be on Linux by now!
REPLY: I don’t know why anyone would want to still use Firefox 2, which is ancient. Double Ditto for Win98 SE. Sorry, not always possible to support the computing era of 12 years ago and move forward at the same time.
BTW Ubuntu offers a way to install and run dual boot with Windows, and has a Firefox 3.6 ready to go -A
As I mentioned before, behind a websense wall, I only get black on gray. I found out today that I can’t post at all now from work, not that I did much anyway.
Any content at wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com is blocked (which is why I couldn’t see most of the pictures before either. Any content at wattsupwiththat.com is open.
So if it’s just as easy to post content at wattsupwiththat.com instead of on wordpress, I can see it.
This is what I was going to post: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/64827
I guess it was only a matter of time, global warming can cause cancer, mental disorders. I thought global warming REQUIRED a mental disorder. Huh.
Thanks!
I see I’m not alone: Too much white space. More than you had is a good thing–the old layout did feel rather cramped–but this is too far the other way. I’d lose the 20px borders to the left and right of the header image. I’m with those who like the post text in sans serif, too. Easier to read and, frankly, sets you apart more. The serif text makes your blog look too much like everyone else’s. Also, while I’m making requests, boost the post titles up another four points or so. They’re not set off enough at the current size, IMO, even in bold.
My three cents!
Clint
My only suggestion is that it is difficult to know what are posts and what are adverts. Maybe a larger, bolder or definitive font would help. I can navigate it, but a better use of the white space would help.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/27/new-theme-for-wuwt/#comment-378923
testing
Looks rubbish in IE6, but then again, what doesn’t? Unfortunately I have to use this horrible old browser in work. Not my choice!
Anthony, I know you must have put much work getting this new format up and running but after a few days of reading I am starting to agree with many which comment that this is MUCH harder to read day by day. I don’t know if it is just the font but seems to be the grayness of the type also. Your other font was MUCH easier on the eyes. I’m afraid this might keep some for reading so frequently.
The excess whitespace is just style, it looks more “ad agency” savy which is good but you could lose some small amounts of vertical space here and there without ruining the sytle.
Why do you have to retype your name and email every comment? That’s a hassle.
Why does your own comment disappear after submitting? Will those be fixed later?
Was looking at your CSS and the font will not let you size it because the size is stated in pixels high instead of using smallest, small, …, large, largest relative sizes. You can zoom the whole page but you have to get the page so large to have easily readable type that other sites are unreadable without sizing back down. When you come back to WUWT you have to size back up. Another hassle. Making just the body paragraph text , not everything, releative sized would help. The bulk can remain fixed-sized.
Just thought you might consider these aspects. Something hard to read doesn’t get read as much, statistical fact.
I have disabled the Greasemonkey choice. Lets see if I get a “waiting for moderation” post.
Excuse me, I want to test something here.
For my previous post I combined italics with blockquote, which I did with the old theme, but somehow ended up with ordinary text.
On another thread I just blockquoted something, and it automatically came up as italics.
So is this the new normal?
WUWT?
my problems with this new format:
name and e-mail are not retained, even if preview and greasemonkey are disabled.
“waiting for moderating ” is not available, either. Post disappears and may appear after monitoring.
when greasmonkey is enabled, the preview works, but the color coding with time of posts and the “reply with link” do not.
test from explorer
I agree. Times New Roman’s appeal was to newspaper publishers, because it packed in type more tightly than competitors on limited newspaper space.
Another suggestion: Double the number of “Recent Posts” — It was set at the current dozen or so back in the days when threads were added much less frequently. New threads now get pushed out of sight too soon — usually within a week.
I like the new banner image, but i’m finding the text very hard to read – it’s too large, the typeface is too thin, and it needs to be sans serif to increase readability.
However, not the end of the world if it stays like this, i’ll just restyle it back to how it was before with Stylish!