After 2.5 years with the same design, I’m looking to do an upgrade to WUWT to give it more modern features. I’ve got some professional help involved to do this. It will be a complete rework from the ground up with a new theme
I’ll be staying with wordpress.com as a host, since it solves all my bandwidth and DDoS attack issue with ease. That means I won’t be able to do wordpress plugins, such as a comment edit/preview feature that everyone asks about. I wish I could, but the security outweighs the convenience.
One thing I do plan is a way to keep the most viewed/discussed stories available on top longer. Some days they scroll off too fast when there’s a lot of news.
That said, I’m open to suggestions. Feel free to drop suggestions in comments.
Tell me what you want to keep, tell me what you want changed or improved. Brainstorm ideas. After all, its a community blog, so I value the input.
Instead of MobileESP, it’s better to simply rethink how you build your site. This is one of the best presentations on web design and designing for mobile devices in the last ten years: http://www.slideshare.net/bryanrieger/rethinking-the-mobile-web-by-yiibu
How about a small tickbox at the end of a comment which indicates whether it’s sarc or not?
The ” /sarc ” tag kills the punchlines to most humorous pieces!
As an alternative to a preview feature, allow each commenter ten minutes (say) in which he can edit his post.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says: September 2, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I have one notable problem with the general site layout.
At the top toolbar, when I mouse over “Reference Pages”, the resulting vertical bar of pages occupies all the space in the browser window on this laptop (1024×768). I have to precisely place “Reference Pages” right at the top of the window to get it all in, the menu does not have scroll option.
Before you add any other reference pages, can you shorten that somehow, maybe add sub-menus to that bar?
Done, thank you for the suggestion. JTF
I’d like the option to choose between UTC (GMT) and say, EDT time.
Being a long-time airlne employee, it was frustrating reading comments (after the fact) at JoNova’s with regards to the release time of Watts et al and PST/PDT.
It was easy for me to figure out the problem as I’m (physically) 3 hours ahead of Anthony.
All my devices use the 24 hour clock except the alarm clock. It’s stuck on 3:50 AM.
I kept looking “airlne” thinking “it doesn’t look right”.
airline
Indicate commenters’ post-counts (and maybe date joined). These are normal. I think they have some value.
Double or triple the number of items allowed in each “page” of the archives. I find it frustrating to have to keep “turning pages” when reviewing the archived threads for a month.
The Reply box opens up if you use the ↓ key.