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,
I’m running the latest Firefox or the latest IE on Windows XP and I don’t see the links on the right hand side and I have no horizontal scroll. Thr rhs only has the archives, search box, and a login/register option.
Looks great. Maybe now I won’t have to CTRL+Scroll to enlarge the window to read the text on my 47″ HTPC.
I see no widgets on the RHS. Search archive, meta are there. Are you still in the process of adding the former?
I like the clean appearance, but there’s a heck of a lot of wasted real estate to the right of the comments.
The right side links are gone for me as well even though i use firefox 3.6.
No links down the side for me either (just the monthly archive list). IE8 fully patched. Just tried it on Firefox 3.6.3, same problem. No horizontal scroll bar. (my display is 1600×1200)
While the larger text is ok, the main page images seem to have shrunk a little.
The only links I see are the archive links. The blogroll and other info graphs are gone, and there is no horizontal scroll bar. I’m running Firefox on Windows Vista
I’m on win XP using firefox and no horizontal bar and no right side just archives.
Thanks Anthony.
I like the larger text. Now I don’t have to use NoSquint on this site. 😉 I saw one of those 24″ monitors at Costco. The price was good, but I’m on a budget these days so I’ll have to wait.
Too bright! All light/white themes are difficult to read, especially at night or in dark rooms.
Maybe tone down the background/border a bit.
Am running a new Mac book Pro and there is no horizontal scroll bar.Is this a remediable problem on a Mac?
I like the cleaner look; the right side was very cluttered before. My main criticism is the header photo; it’s not very sharp. Is that the same image as before? I can’t remember. Also, I suggest branding your name. Find a way to display it that makes it stand out.
I’m missing all the side links. Also, the font choice only seems like a good idea until you have to look at it for a year. I like the old site better & I’m using 1280×1024 widescreen format.
* Could do with a separator highlighting the start of an entry (or having the background of the Entry title a full width color – gray, perhaps).
* the blog caption and tag line could do with moving into the image – the blog, tagline and header image take up about 40% of the vertical space on a 1280×1024 monitor. Hate to think what it’s like on a newer widescreen laptop screen with only 800 pixels of vertical resolution.
* larger text is great. Although most browsers have the ability to resize the text for the reader quite readily. It looks good on a 1680×1050 monitor – with a lower res monitor I do have to shrink the text down a notch to make it a bit more presentable (caption spacing verses text size) but does make a few other things too small, then.
* If most people are running higher res/larger screens, I believe on the whole it’s a bit more readable. Older screens/lower res may not like it as much as the old screen.
I’ll probably read this on the widescreened computer rather than my dev machine, now, based on these changes.
Are the other sidebar things (beyond the Search, Archives, Meta) just missing for now? Like the picture of the (again) sunspot-adverse sun?
Anthony:
The only stuff I see on the right side of WUWT is the search box, the Archives list, and the two
item “Meta” list. Since I’ve used the “old” list of postings three times in two years, I can’t
say I miss it not being there.
You now take up 3/4ths of my screen, rather than the old 2/3rds.
Running IE 6, with http://wattsupwiththat.com/ listed as “permitted” and passing through the
“privacy” filter. I have all the current MS and Norton/Symantec updates installed.
My “NO! Flash” SW flash blocker is turned off.
No scroll bar can be seen.
The text is very readable, especially on my flat screen, which is sometimes a challenge given
my bifocals.
Good look overall.
I read the blog through RSS in Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. The posts display offset horizontally from the header so that the left edge of the text is aligned with the right edge of the header. I have to scroll to the right in order to see the post at all.
Don’t see anything wrong with it. Don’t see any real improvement either. Cleaner, yes, but kinda generic too. C-plus.
At a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 on a 20 inch monitor, I have a too-wide screen with no data below the pix on the left and have to scroll to the right side to pick up data there. Based on this, I would have to say that I hate it.
Sorry, I preferred the old theme. It was more compact, and appealing. It feels bigger and more spaced out (I have fixed this by using Ctrl -). The only links I see are archives.
Picture at the top looks pixelated.. reminds me of a 90’s webpage. Good to see the smiley is still there at the bottom! Content still 100% though 🙂
Anthony ,
I’m having the same problem as vigilantfish . The links to your archives are there , but nothing else .
REPLY: The problem was describing “links” in galactically broad terms. Which he meant to be specific, inlcuding images, widgets, ads, etc but I took as “everything”. All there now, and a lesson to be specific when describing problems. -A
Sorry, I preferred the old theme. It was more compact, and appealing. It feels bigger and more spaced out (I have fixed this by using Ctrl -).
Picture at the top looks pixelated.. reminds me of a 90’s webpage. Good to see the smiley is still there at the bottom! Content still 100% though 🙂
except for ‘Archives’ no right side links. Have very high screen resolution on very large screen.
Follow up: It looks like the right side needs to be slide to the left just under the earth pix. I also see a right side archive list on Firefox 2.0.0.20 (too many probs with the latest version) with XP but no links.
It’s OK. Personally (and I may be old fashioned and in a minority of 1) it’s the content that gets me to come back regularly – provided I can read it, almost anything would be OK!
2 year old PC, Vista, IE8, 19 inch screen, 1440×900, colours = highest (32 bit).
I think the statement “Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts” is important and needs to be larger, a distinctive color and directly under the “Watts Up With That?”