Comments on: New blog design

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By: Ossi

Ossi — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:32:27 +0000

i hate those “read more …” sections: it takes an awful lot of time to load them.
otoh, i can imagine some people find them useful … so a proper implementation would still load the entire post and hide the “more part” via css – the “more button” would show it via javascript dom manipulation. there are plenty of sites that do it like that – dunno whether wordpress can be configured that way …

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:50:07 +0000

Just in case theres still some point posting this so late :

Please, please, please lets have some ability to edit or at least preview our messages before & after we post here …

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:49:08 +0000

And although my post seems to have worked I got a bunch of errors instead of coming back to the page…. similar errors to Harold’s post above. FF2.0.0.5, WXP.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:25:07 +0000

I like it. The calendar/archive block seems to be in a sidebar pretty much by itself, but it’s generally less than 1/2 post tall (or should I say most posts are at least 2 calendars tall). Anyways, the net result is that there is a lot of white space on the right side for most of the page.
This is true of the full sidebar too, but to a much lower extent. I suppose if the side bar were a different color or something, the empty space would seem more logical once the content of the sidebar is scrolled off the top of the screen.

This is really hard, but it would be cool if the posts (or comments) sort-of extended to fill the available space once they were past the toolbars. Hmm… I may have to look to see if I can do that on my blog. I’m sure I could make it work on one of the 143 odd browsers.

By: Harold

Harold — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:37:20 +0000

Ian, that looks like what I’m seeing.

By: Ian Regan

Ian Regan — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:14:22 +0000

This is the problem I’m having with the blog at the moment; the third column is displaced to the bottom of the page under the other two columns:

[URL=http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bablogqc5.jpg][IMG]http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/156/bablogqc5.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I’m running IE 6 in Windows XP Second Edition.

By: Harold

Harold — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:12:46 +0000

And I’m also getting that confounded error message whenever I post a comment:

Regex ID: 18281 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.
Regex ID: 18369 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.
Regex ID: 23317 (jacob_25) appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.
Regex ID: 18261 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/badastro/domains/badastronomy.com/public_html/bablog/wp-content/plugins/SK2/sk2_util_class.php:208) in /home/badastro/domains/badastronomy.com/public_html/bablog/wp-comments-post.php on line 67

By: Harold

Harold — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:09:57 +0000

Phil, I would do a screen capture of your site as I am seeing it so you could see what the oversized fonts look like, along with a screen capture of some other site (mine, maybe) that is showing up properly, but I have a feeling your e-mail filter may reject it as spam. Could you post framegrabs of what the site should look like? Maybe then you can figure out who is seeing it the way it should be, and who isn’t, and what operating systems and browsers they’re using.

I am using Windows XP SP2 and IE 6.0.2900.2096.

I am also not seeing any “third column”, or even a second. Everything is in a single broad column. Here is a visual description of what I am seeing, from top to bottom:

- BAD ASTRONOMY header
- Gray boxes for Home, Intro, About, Contact, Media/PR Kit, Main Site
- Gray boxes for Menu and Forum overlapping the bottoms of Home and Intro
- Something cut off, looks like an ad
- Two dashes and a right-pointing arrow (Is this supposed to be REM-ing something out?)
- A picture ad for Hertz and Mariott, also cut in half (only top half, or maybe less, appears)
- Prev/Next Posts (named), with date box to the right
- Post title
- Diggs box
- Posted at 2:45 pm in About this blog
- Post, with an ad squeezed into the upper right corner
- Ads by Google at bottom of post
- Responses
- Trackback URI / Comments RSS
- Leave a Reply
- Archives
- Calendar
- Categories (with drop box)
- View button
- Live Earth picture ad
- Search the BABlog (with text box, pick boxes, and button)
- The BABlogger
- Picture
- I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep (All on one line, cuts off after word “keep”)
- Feed Me, Seymour
- RSS Feed for BABlog
- Seven buttons in a vertical column, with “Add to Google” to the right of “Technorati” and “Site Meter” to the right of “Moon Costumes”
- Read BABlog via Email!
- Enter your email address
- Box with “Submit” button
- Powered by Feedblitz
- Anti-Antiscience (with list of links below)
- Blogroll (with list of links below)
- Podcasts (with list of links below)
- Meta (with list of links below)
- Copyright line

By: Irishman

Irishman — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:20:52 +0000

IE 6.0.2900 I also have the third column dropping to the bottom of the first column.

This happened often with the old board, too.

Also, the line “I am an astronomer…” does not wrap, but runs off the right side of the page.

By: Ian Regan

Ian Regan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:00:17 +0000

I have the same problem as Michael H; the third column is displayed directly underneath column 1 and 2.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:59:40 +0000

… but now that I look at it, the font does look different than it did before! I literally cut and pasted the font-family line to the news style sheet, so I don’t know why the font changed. Does anyone have suggestions?

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:51:15 +0000

I changed my mind and made the font a hair bigger. I’d love to change the font style, too, but that’ll take some fiddlin’.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:43:25 +0000

Lots of interesting comments.

I enlarged the Prev/Next font.

TomEpps complained about the text being too small. That is not on my end! It’s something your browser is doing. What computer and browser are you using?

The regex comment problem happens every single time I upgrade, and I cannot fix it! It goes away on its own, and it’s very irritating.

The Digg button has not changed in any way.

As far as I can tell, I am using the same font as before. In fact, I cut and pasted the font names into the new style sheet!

Some people like the content in the middle, some on the left. I can’t please everyone, so i will do what I like.

By: James

James — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:19:37 +0000

You’ve had time to redesign the layout? Yup, you’re definitely writing

By: Jarno

Jarno — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:15:08 +0000

Wait… now I see the “digg” symbol with the number of diggs back up again.

If that was becaus of something you did, then good job Phil.

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:16:10 +0000

Throwing in my two cents…

I don’t really like the new font style or size. Maybe I’m being a snob, but something about the old font made me feel like I was reading a professional forum. Now, with a big, bouncy, rounded font, it feels like just another blog. The content hasn’t changed, the tone hasn’t changed, but the way it resonates with me has changed.

One other reason I don’t like the font size: I used to be able to absorb a lot of information from a single screen. Now I have to scroll down to read any one post. So maybe what I’m feeling is a perceived diminishment in content quality as a result of a literal reduction in information density. I dunno. Maybe I’ll get used to it.

By: Michael H

Michael H — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:45:33 +0000

Phil
On my Internet explorer 6.0.2900 at 1280×1024 column 3 is displayed on the left below columns 1 and 2. As if the total width of the three columns was wider than the displayable width. Anyone else get this?

By: Regner Trampedach

Regner Trampedach — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:10:48 +0000

Phil, I think you need to have a webmaster account, that we can E-mail
about technical matters about the web-site.
I have encountered the same error as was first reported by Keith Thompson did on July 22nd. I use FireFox1.5.
Cheers, Regner

By: Jarno

Jarno — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:48:29 +0000

I like the new layout exept for the fact that the “digg” symbol that shows how many people have dugg the article seems to be missing. I think seeing that visible symbol/link was a good thing, because otherwise it might just slip people’s minds to digg an entry they like…. now there’s only the tiny text at the bottom of each entry.

I predict that you’ll see a reduction in the average number of diggs you get – not because of any expected lowering of quality, but because the link doesn’t really stand out.

By: gopher65

gopher65 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:14:49 +0000

One thing I’d suggest: Please don’t set your font size in “px”. Use “em” instead, which is a relative font size.

By: G

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:06:30 +0000

Phil:

A fixed-width design is very nice. Be careful with a fluid layout. It may be nice for a while, but people with smaller resolutions will lose your side divs and your advertising.

But you already know that.

One of my blogs has that problem sometimes: TurningLeft.net. I love the layout and design, but should probably fix the width. The side divs jump to the bottom on older browsers.

By: brandelion

brandelion — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:33:23 +0000

the change is refreshing – esp. the sidebars on the right. very nicely done, improved readability.

By: John Phillips

John Phillips — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:43:00 +0000

I am also getting the errors listed below when submitting a post. Additionally, when I then used the back button to see if my post was entered it wasn’t. I then entered it again to get the WordPress ‘you are trying to enter a duplicate post’ error. I then used the back button and my post was still not here and only revealed itself when I did a hard refresh, i.e. CTL F5, I am using IE7 BTW.

Regex ID: 18261 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.

By: John Phillips

John Phillips — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:35:42 +0000

Not having visited for a day or so it totally threw me initially, thinking I was at the wrong site However, now I am getting used to it I have no real problem with it and in fact I think I prefer it. The only request I would make would be to enlarge the Previous/Main/Next links at the top and the Title banner just doesn’t look right somehow. Someone suggested moving the sidebars to the left and I would totally disagree with that. For this way, with the size of browser window I prefer I can see all of your post plus the comments and enough of the leftmost sidebar to get an idea what it is at least. Moving the sidebars would mean either widening my browser window, which I really don’t want to do for a number of reason, or I would have to scroll, which I also don’t want to do unless it is to access your site links. Overall, an improvement on the original.