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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Dear Sir,
Your present font seems to be two times bigger then the one used before. I had to used 80% scaling ratio on my Opera web browser to read equally fast as before.
Sometimes one look at the text decides if I should read it or not. Now I have to grab all the words from my screen to one place (to understands them). 😉
Best regards,
Przemysław Pawełczyk
I went with the “it’s ok” option as I can’t get too emotional over a website design, good or bad – but, if anything, I do prefer the new look. The main thing I love about this site though, is the content, so as long as this remains consistently gripping, I will take the format as it comes!
No links on Safari new MacBook Pro.
Old layout so familiar and reassuring.
I noticed that there is no link back to the home page. While I noticed that one can click on the “Watt’s Up With That?” title to go back to the home page, having a link titled “Home” in your link bar at the top would be nice.
Ultimately, a great upgrade to a good website. Thanks for all the work and research you do.
Also, how about a better font for the title?
Ubuntu 9.10 Linux with Chrome – Ok
That’s better, but still prefer original. That will not reduce my visits,however.
I like the new look. White space and larger fonts are a plus. I view on 24″ widescreen at work and home, and the new look is very readable.
Ask us again after everything is implemented and restored. I haven’t seen enough of the new features to say, one way or another.
After final set-up, if anyone has problems finding the links, etc.: Sometimes in Firefox, WordPress sites end up with the right column contents pushed all the way to the bottom. An hour or two on the internet will give you the solution. Or you could just go ahead and do View Zoom Reset.
I like the format, though the other was good, too.
The text ought to be darker., especially for the smaller notational text, but also for the posts. Is that a function of the font or did you select a gray scale color for it?
A suggestion. You save a lot of space in the right column for other things if you put the archives in a pull down menu.
Another suggestion. Add the feature for the left column auto-width. If bookmarks are open, the right column gets pushed off the screen.
Sidebar widgets not working in IE or Firefox.
Frankly, I liked the old layout/theme better. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Millions of visitors to the old theme should tell you something.
Or, if you want to get a makeover, I suggest a 3-column theme with one large column for content on the left and two righthand sidebars for widgets.
None of this addresses the meta issue of mass communication of cutting-edge science and policy. Anthony, please email me so that we can discuss some high level meta ideas and a proposal that you may find very interesting.
I appreciate the larger font but need a few moments to get used to it. It’s like moving the furniture in a blind man’s house—it will take some adjusting to find the links etc that I use every day.
I think you will get the sidebar links figured out as soon as you begin to believe that we can’t see them. Otherwise the whole effect is too washed out. Otherwise this site is the greatest.
The Widgets came back up the right side to the top, you must have fixed that.
The text is now a set size, unable to change it.
What a shock it was to see the new layout after hitting the Post Comment button.
Hey hey, the sidebar widgets just kicked in. Now working in IE and Firefox.
I gave it a try on my Amiga system using OWB and the links shows up fine there.
REPLY: Amiga? wow, well I draw the line at Timex Sinclair. -A
Yea! They’re back!
Is the “Your comment is awaiting moderation” feature gone? That was nice to see at least for knowing the comment didn’t get lost in the Internet.
Very good. Neat fonts that facilitates the reading process. Serifs are important in a running text to keep the word images together.
Yes, facilities like widgets and all will sure be back soon when it is done.
Love it! So much easier on my eyes it makes WUWT even more pleasurable to read.
A suggestion: Can you put back the Home page link on your top nav?
I’m not a designer, but I would prefer to see the title and the “Commentary…by..” actually inside of the header image, it would be more concise.
And the background looks nice being white, but a black background will be more energy efficient since those pixels won’t have to fire…using less energy :).
Other than that it looks great!
Rick
” Erik says:
April 27, 2010 at 9:13 am
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’m guessing He needs three monitors to display all of the latest science coming in daily which says it’s worse than we thought? Either that or he is a secret computer game junkie and plays flight simulators on a Matrox triplehead2go setup Tipper bought him for XMAS 😉
On topic- I’m too missing the widget/gadgets on the right side of the page (using firefox here). I really like the new text but overall I find the display a bit too light overall (puts extra strain on the eyes, especially at night). Minimal is good but perhaps this is just a little too minimal for my taste. Maybe if the background was a slightly darker grey?
Whatever works for you, Sir Anthony.
Looks good. But it would be better with non-serif fonts – always easier on the eyes.
I’m still thanking my dogs for destroying my old computer. Your site looks great on windows 7 and a 27″ screen.