Comments on: So how do you like the new redesign?

By: RN

RN — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:15:23 +0000

Won’t work for me in Opera or Firefox. ((

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:33:45 +0000

My (oldish) version of Firefox shows even less than reported by the Opera user. Unless I disable style-sheet use, the page shows nothing but the tiled background image.

By: bill whitney

bill whitney — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:33:52 +0000

It won’t display on my windows vista laptop running opera browser, which allows magnification for easier reading.

bill

By: James Prescott

James Prescott — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:36:58 +0000

The new design doesn’t work at all with Opera 9.64 (the latest). All I see is the top strip of what is probably the new logo (maybe a satellite picture?, says Climate Progress on the right although only the very top of the letters are visible), and then the page footer (About…, (C)…).

The rest of the screen is a blocky blue L pattern.

No articles or useful content of any kind.

If I select ‘View / Style / User Mode’ then the content appears but most formatting is gone.

By: J4zonian

J4zonian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:48:46 +0000

Also, I’m interested in what people have to say so i keep track of replies to my comments by pasting them all onto a big document with links. common dreams makes that easy with a personal account page and a tracking tab that leads you to all your comments and says whether there are new posts on the page. I’ve tried to copy my comments here and elsewhere in the new format and can’t now; every time i try it jumps to the top of the page and selects the whole article. Is that you or me?

By: J4zonian

J4zonian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:43:15 +0000

“We’re probably not going to be making any more major changes anytime soon, but comments are welcome!”

In other words, feel free to whine uselessly because you’re not going to pay attention to any but the most trivial issues? I’m sure you don’t mean that, but the wording is unfortunate.

[JR: Actually I was just trying to be as straightforward as possible. I'm not a very visual person so my judgment on these matters doesn't count for much, but CAPAF's IT folks will definitely look at the comments and we will discuss possible changes. It is very unlikely such changes will be better.]

The new one is OK; I have no major problems with it. I like the old one better, thought it was more distinctive and readable.

By: thingsbreak

thingsbreak — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:09:57 +0000

While I think I preferred the overall design of the old site in general, the new site is amazing on mobile devices!

By: Chris Winter

Chris Winter — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:30:56 +0000

On reflection, I like everything except the masthead. I would put the subtitle on the right, underneath the title. It should either share the same background as the title, or be backed by a uniform color. I would also drop the “blocky” graphic in favor of something smoother, simpler and bolder. (On the other hand, if this is meant to represent the grid squares in a climate model, its meaning should be made more obvious.)

One other thing that would improve the layout is a thin gray vertical line just to the right of the comments.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:47:15 +0000

I read the side nearly every day. I actually had to double check the URL several times, I thought I hit a spam page.

Honestly Joe, I thought your site was already top-notch in visual branding. Strong, bold, and carried the message without effort. The new site is confusing, somewhere between WIRED digital meets too much white-space canned design.

In my opinion, you’ll have better audience retention with a less generic design.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:41:21 +0000

The redesign looks nice, but you could look into a “fluid” layout that lets a person expand the size of the posts without compromising the size of the sidebars. That way a person with a bigger monitor can expand the posts to a very wide size but your sidebar stays the same width.

I’m glad you are finally on Twitter. Also, you could add a social tag on each post so people can share them however they wish.