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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“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 :).”
Oh, no. Never a black background. They always force me to use readability.
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
In effect this has changed my reading font from 10 to 30.
Not good.
Presentation’s fine and no glitches on my version of XP and Firefox. What I would suggest, though, is that the white background’s too bright. How about a nice, restful pale green (or an option for the user to change the background?
I basically hate change of all kinds, so my reaction is “eh” at best. But it’s your blog, you should do whatever makes you happy.
why is everybody shouting ? … I see lots of small caps being used …
On my Win7 computer in Firefox most text is displayed with “small-caps”. I.e. capital style letters, slightly shrunk. I find it alot harder to read. Are everybody shouting suddenly?
Perhaps I’m just not used to it, but I find an upper and lower case font more readable than Small Caps. That said, it looks very crisp and cool.
The text is very hard to read. Please change the font!
Much too sparse for me, I can only assume it is change for changes sake – rarely a good idea. In point of fact, your site does not comply with UK ‘rules’ on access for the partly-sighted. In practical terms, for example, changing the browser font size has no effect. You are also supposed to allow the colours of various text objects to be changed (colour blindness you know).
In neither case does anyone give a monkeys, because in reality the UK oversight on websites has no teeth at all, especially for overseas websites. Although once my local chamber of commerce gave me a tug about our website content – terms of supply etc etc, but that just illustrates how profoundly stupid government is in this country – at all levels.
The climate audit assistant http://climateaudit.org/ca-assistant/
worked here too for editing.
With the new format the “Reply with link” link has been lost, as well as the colored highlighting according to the choice of hours since the posting appeared.
Maybe the author should be contacted?
The “Preview” works
Looks great, Anthony! I’m using Mac OS 10.5.8 with the Safari browser, all links to the right-hand side are present and functional.
….wish I could say that for our government!! Rock on, Chuck the DrPH
cooling iphone burning scientists
Not too keen.
Why is it all in capitals? It’s hard to read and FEELS LIKE SHOUTING
I too have to put a smaller size on the fonts.
Previous posts now seem to be in Arial font.
This one has reverted to your previous font.
The serife types are better for reading ( New Times, s th l th), than without. It’s easier to follow the lines while reading
I don’t like the all upper case font.
Much better, keep it.
Layout is nice, but here are some suggestions:
* Use black text instead of gray. High contrast makes things more readable.
* Remove the 20px gray margin at the very top. (This is to get content as high up as possible)
* “Watts Up With That?” could be pushed into the top-left of the banner. That would save an additional 80 pixels.
Current layout:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9118/ss20100427211228.png
Sample of suggested layout (made using Firebug):
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/926/ss20100427211340.png
Shona:
I think it’s your browser. I don’t get all caps.
I like the larger text, but all of the blogroll/links/ads on the side are way down at the bottom of the page. If lots of people are having this issue, I would bet that you will see a decrease in your click-through rates for those ads.
The old format didn’t fill up a large monitor, but it was stylish and crisp. I would be happy if it returned.
Thanks Anthony, the right hand side is back!
Font is still a bit thin and pale, and the stark white background is hard on my poor old eyes. Any chance you could make it darker?
Works well for me. Before, when I did the zoom, the text would get hidden behind the right side bar. Now I do not have that issue, I can zoom in and see everything the same as it was, only bigger.
Cleaner, marginally easier-to-read fonts and everything works just like the old one did for me – I run a bog standard straight-out-of-the-box PC about 5 yrs old, with XP and IE6 on a cable broadband that gives good video streaming. The site was nice in its old guise but the new look is a tad easier on my eyes. The banner graphic is conservative and the pic you use is great.
It’s okay, I like the date/time stamp, better than the 3 numbers in the corner. Too American, though.
I strongly dislike the gray text. No book I have at home is printed with gray ink. Is that a gesture to Bill Livingston’s fading sunspots? (Just kidding, I realize its merely trendy, but trendy isn’t necessarily good.)
About time you include some HTML instructions! 🙂 What’s this <
all about:test of del. The last I tried, <cite> was useless, I’ll try it from home. Do you have control over the HTML blurb? It would be nice to have a good one.This may blow out my Python code that creates the summaries at http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/ – I’ll check that out from home too but won’t change it for a while.
Let me try an image of a thermometer log .
The little WordPress traffic count smiley face is still at the bottom. Yay. Now in the center instead of the lower left.
Change for changes sake?
JimB