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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The smaller text is much easier to read
Big improvement I think. I especially like the larger font. Much better for the 1600×1200 resolution I run here and 1920×1200 at home.
Also, the links and widgets are working fine for me in Firefox.
Theme selections can be a tough choice. I also think it is a ‘personal’ taste issue. I prefer a warmer environment such as my blog used to be. After a period I was able to adjust to a newer, fresher, higher-tech, look which I now use while still maintaining somewhat of a warm comfort feeling. http://www.leekington.com/climatebuzz/ But,… that is me.
I am presently slightly more limited in image size than this test theme you have. However, I opted to leave ample space for snippets and article titles. (I also have special accommodation for the WUWT titles).
Bottom line Anthony.. WUWT is your home. I will sit in any chair (theme) offered and be content with the offerings of a gracious host.
Sincere Regards,
Lee Kington
Text size is never an issue for me. Most of the time I run a high resolution and on some sites still zoom out or restyle them on locally.
The left hand blank column [to the left of the text column] serves no purpose and should go.
REPLY: There is no ” left hand blank column” that’s just background -A
I can live with it it.
Suggestions:
1. Old title at top, light text on dark background, looked better. Also, the yellow text of CA Assistant at top right is pretty well washed out on the white background. A dark block across the top would make everything look spiffy.
2. Sans serif font. Looks more “scientific-y” while this serif font looks more “literature-y.”
3. Needs separators between stories, things were “blurring together” a bit on the main page.
BTW, are you aware of how many additional thousands of megawatts all your millions of viewers will now consume worldwide from having to display so much more white? Better get some more LED lights to offset it. 😉
I like it.I can see all the links on the side,have to scroll across to see them.A wide margin on the left,but I guess that is for the bigger screen.I haven’t looked on the laptop yet,it will probably be better on that.
IMO too bright – the background washes-out the finer font. Perhaps text a little darker?
I’ve also acted by reducing text size to 90% of the re-set.
No problems with the right-hand stuff – all present
Certainly looks fresh tho :-]
Love it. Looks great on my i-Mac. all the links are there and they work. No H scroll bar at the bottom but do not need it, the window is open wide enough and then some.
AND, thank you for the HTML tags info just below this box. I’m always miss-placing (do not use them enough) my old cheat-sheet, now I don’t have to go searching. 🙂
Hey, I think your banner is my desktop image. It’s one of my favorite NASA images, taken from aboard the ISS. The whole image shows a crescent moon peeking through the atmosphere.
Sorry Anthony, but I too am having problems seeing anything on the right hand side of the screen and no scroll bar is visible. The font you are useing is less clear to read than before, appearing rather faint and spindly. I also get a list of HTML tag use info under the ‘Post Comment’ box, which is useful very, thanks.
If I run Firefox using the ‘no style’ option in the view menu, the links do appear as a long list at the very bottom or the screen when I scroll down. However, doing this screws up all the top header info and pictures, so is not a viable option!
I’m running XP Pro (SP2) on a 3yo Dell laptop with a 1024 x 768 display. Browser is Firefox 3.6, fully updated.
I like the larger font although it doesn’t make much difference to me as I had set Firefox to enlarge the old forum by default.
One thing – there seems to be a lot of wasted space around each post which requires more scrolling
The new banner also depicts “Nature’s Thermostat” in action!
Or you could accomodate different resolutions by using CSS that gracefully handles them, rather than assuming that you know what resolution is best.
REPLY: I’d rather have my eyes gouged out with hot pokers than try editing CSS, beyond Greek to me -A
Hey Anthony, It looks good to me.
I spend 10 hours a day in front of this high class calculator; and with my eyes I need all the help I can get. Even when it is doing the work for me, I need to see when it screws up, and redirect it; so it is nice to read comfortably while I am waiting for the machine to cough.
I thought at first I was at the OpenMind website. Humpff…
Anthony,
Clean and crisp, great for hi-res, but miss the “Home” link that used to get me right back to the main page, now you’ve just got “About….Projects…..” etc…
Alea.
My 24″ monitor thanks you!
REPLY: yeah, that’s what I author on. -A
Looks good now, and I like it. Good update.
UPDATE: all the sidebar widgets are now restored. -A
Not on the first page
REPLY: that’s what the refresh button is for, unless you are running IE, which never seems to work right. -A
Love the larger text, but I preferred the black “header”. All that white looks a bit unfinished and empty, but perhaps I’m just being conservative.
Like the new format!
I’m nearsighted and now can read the larger type without needing to take off my glasses.
It looks good, although the masthead uses too much vertical real estate. Maybe you could make the image a background behind a light-colored blog title and description.
Why is it that every website in existence seems to find it necessary to reinvent itself every three years?
What happened to “If it ain’t broke, don’t mess with it?”
Leif Svalgaard says:
REPLY: There is no ” left hand blank column” that’s just background -A
I guess my screen is just too wide. When I narrow the window, the ‘background’ goes away.
Background tone is very nice now 🙂 Much easier on the eyes, much better balance visually.