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:
UPDATE:
The right hand links are now displaying a line or two after the
“leave a Reply” and the box to check for “Notify me of follow up…”
This is happening on the home page following:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/21/second-mann-spoof-video-removed/
and on each of the article pages.
I went back, wipe the history and web sites tree from my Naviscope, clear all
the Temporary Internet files and offline content, wiped out the usual stored
temporary cookies, did a Disc cleanup and a file defragmentation.
Upon coming back, the right side links are still “down below”.
This is almost as interesting as eBay’s site changes and tweeking in their
second year of operations. Of course, their staff of 150+ programmers did
most of the changes after 1:00 AM EDT.
R.S.Brown says:
April 27, 2010 at 10:52 am
Anthony,
I went downstairs, unloaded & reloaded the dishwasher, started it, and
came back up.
All the links on the right hand side are now displaying beautifully.
…an obvious case of cause and effect.
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But does that agree with your robust model?
I like it so far. Let’s see how it look with a post with graphics as well as text.
Running on 30″ Mac monitors
Didn’t there used to be a link at the top to the home page? Can’t seem to find that. A handy way to get back to home & see all the posts.
I did check out a regular post with the new format & it looked great.
I like the new lay out. The white is awfully bright, I dimmed my brightness 70% to make it comfortable. I have an old HP pavilion 17″ on a dell dimension with XP and Firefox.
Crisp and clear, I think I’m going snow blind, where did I put my shades.
Where’s the ‘HOME’ button, i use it a lot?
[Click right on “Watts Up With That.” ~dbs]
I may change opinion – when I forget the difference – but I join the conservative readers who preferred the old theme. The new one has many advantages etc. but it looks too simple, structureless, in a way.
Also, I suppose that the new theme has many more characters per line. I actually find it unfortunate because it’s easier to read when you don’t have to move your eyes too much to the left – a possible error of re-reading the same line etc.
Tim Clark says:
April 27, 2010 at 10:59 am
Except now the right hand stuff is at the bottom, below the post comment button. Something I can fix? Vista and Explorer.
REPLY: Vista and IE? Gawd help you. – A
Yeah, Government issue and low bidder.
R.S.Brown says:
April 27, 2010 at 10:52 am
Anthony,
I went downstairs, unloaded & reloaded the dishwasher, started it, and
came back up.
All the links on the right hand side are now displaying beautifully.
…an obvious case of cause and effect.
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View from the Solent says:
April 27, 2010 at 11:18 am
But does that agree with your robust model?
I’m sure his wife agreed with R.S. doing the dishes!
I use Ubuntu 9.10 + Firefox 3.5.9 and it looks good here.
Re: View from the Solent (April 27, 2010 at 11:18 am):
I used to have a robust model, but she left me for a man in the motor trade.
Graphics test:
Looks good to me. I use IE8 in XP and a 1600 x 900 monitor, and can see all of the stuff. Usually go to 125% or 150% zoom for ease of reading, and get a bar at the bottom with 150% … new format looks clearer actually.
Thanks for all you do.
I think I preferred the old set up, but imo this one could be improved by:
1. Less white space – seems so empty and unappealing – lacks the old compulsion to read more than one already has.
2. The text for posts would be much better sans serif (always works better on a screen), and also, darker as I’m struggling to read it.
Now that you’ve fixed the right side problem , things are much better . I will have to agree with some that the screen seems a tad bright , but in general it is more readable . One little nit , though : I preferred the way you posted the date in the upper right corner of each comment . It made it easier to sort through the comments on older postings – I always hit “end” and scroll upwards , especially in the Tips and Notes section .
The large image at the top tends to keep much or all of the latest post’s title from appearing until the reader scrolls down. If you created a smaller version of the image, you would also save on bandwidth. Right now it’s 75KB.
I don’t think the font needs to be so large if you make it sufficiently dark.
View, Text Size does not work.
Let me adjust the text size again and I might like it.
As it is now….NO
I voted “Love It”… however, that vote is for everything but the added scroll-down time.
Anthony, I’m surprised you have the red-hot poker reflex to CSS! 😉
I have a nice ~8 yo XP box, usually running Ubuntu these days, but on XP at the moment. Back on Linux soon.
Since I was warned … my subjective impression that page-download took significantly longer, is of course suspect. I have DSL now, but it’s rock-bottom service with a guarantee of 256k MAX. It’s usually just under that: ‘sposed to increase as our infrastructure improves. I was dialup until last fall: only thing available, fairly unique situation (I surfed with images turned off).
I have an agreeable ProView 14″ diag LCD with 1024 x 768. The new format fit the width without a sign of trouble (your “fluid width” CSS is what it should be). This is the most important factor.
I’ve ran WordPress on my own remote-hosted server for several years and found the system very stable. One does get more flexibility, if he can at least mumble some pidgin-CSS. 😉
Congratulations on the nice new theme!
(2nd attempt – this time with Javascript enabled).
The image at the top is so large that it tends to keep the most or all of the latest post’s title from appearing until the reader scrolls down. If you were to create a smaller version of the image (i.e., don’t merely specify a smaller size in the html markup), then it would also use less bandwidth. Currently it’s 75KB.
The main text font wouldn’t need to be so large if you were to make it dark enough.
Just curious. Why don’t you have Skeptical Science listed in the side bar as a Pro AGW website?
REPLY: give me a reason to do so when the kid proprietor is openly hostile towards me. -A
Smokey says: April 27, 2010 at 11:40 am
Graphics test:
The graphic looks perfectly normal.
The subject doesn’t.
Which is, I guess, normal…
New theme is very cool. Works well on Explorer, Firefox and Chrome.
Love the new look on XP w/ Firefox 3.6.3. Looks like it’s all there and easier to read.