As you’ve probably noticed, the look of this page has been updated. What do you think of the new look? (Please leave your opinion in the comments for this entry. For reference, here’s the old look.)
Put a +2, +1, 0, -1, or -2 at top of your comment indicating how you feel. FYI This entry written by Will Gayther – I wrote the software that runs this weblog, and did most of the redesign.What Do You Think Of The New Weblog Look?
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Will, I gather you're working on the site now... I've synchronized everything recently and will log off now so as not to generate any conflicts. I'll check in again shortly.
At the moment, the whole comment will appear... I suppose creating a length limit might be a good thing to try in the future.
I like the new format for the recent comments, but what happens when someone adds a very long comment? Do you show the whole thing or limit it the first X chars? I also like that the comments under each entry are numbered which helps them stand out and not blend together like they had the tendency to do before.
FYI, I've been slowly working on a few things that had been bugging me...
I'm trying to open up the comments field a bit more...
For the URL display, I've hidden the "http://" for people who don't type in a URL, and I've added it for people who leave it out...
I've also added the date that comments were added, and souped up the "Recent Comments" page so it includes the full text of the 5 most recent comments.
Will, to answer your question I would rather easily see the menu items over the weblog links but I see the point that this is the weblog page and the weblog and weblog links should be the focus here. I find that the new format moves the weblog links that I did use (NMJ @ Seton Hill, Onion, Daypop, Google News, SciTech Daily) down the page so that I now have to scroll which takes a bit of getting used to. I really feel that the NMJ @ Seton Hill link should be visible without having to scroll.
I am also getting used to the new colors. :)
Hanna, thanks for the heads-up. I don't have access to my development machine at the moment, but Monday I'll try to fix the problem.
Not a comment about the new look as such, but in Safari the sidebar is positioned just left of the middle of the page, obscurring the entries and leaving a large white gap at the left side where it should be. Makes for rather difficult reading!
Will and Chris, at least both of you are doing re-vamps! I recently turned over the UWEC English Festival website to a new webmaster who has a great design, but has not put it up yet, after eight weeks or so. My hat is off to you two.
Will, one thing you could try for the sidebar links is padding-left: 5px; and text-indent: -5px;. This'll indent every line underneath the first line. I'm doing the CSS of the UWEC redesign and just used something similar for some menu items today.
Yup. Found 'em! Thanks loads!