Comments on: Redesign update: Main column narrowed

By: Peter Wood

Peter Wood — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:48:18 +0000

I notice that the comments have all gone into italics in the “Epic Battle 3″ comments thread.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:38:18 +0000

Joe,

obviously you don’t have a graphics background, (and thank goodness for all the good stuff you do bring) but the NYT (assuming you mean their Green Inc blog?) is readable because there are only about 11 words across – this revamp is better than it was at 22 words per line – but it is still wider than is comfortable reading – at about 16 words across.

Your comment section has more padding so that the text is more scrunched up, and thats another way to approach it – keep the section 600 px wide but pad it more.

Most blogs I write for seem to have 500 px widths and I think that is really the comfort limit for most readers.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:29 +0000

Hi Joe,
I think a little more green in general would be better. Personally, i thought that the bold headlines of the previous site contrasted very nicely and sharply with the white background so my eyes quickly focused on the disparate headlines as the site loaded. Still having a bit of trouble finding the text sort to say with these blue headlines set against the blue background border. But that may be just me. Sorry to seem picky!

Thanks,
Dan

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:30:44 +0000

Hi Joe, I tried to comment on your post about Warren Buffet just now, and I don’t know if you’ve even received it. I didn’t see the “awaiting moderation” message. Have you removed this as well as the ability to preview one’s comment? I wish we had that back. Hope to hear back from you.

[JR: Weird. You got into spam folder. That's hard to do! Sorry.]

By: Hmpf

Hmpf — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:13:09 +0000

Another Opera user here who’d like to be able to see the page in her browser… (at the moment I’m switching to Firefox for reading ClimateProgress, but I have several thousand bookmarks in Opera so I would like to stay with my accustomed browser, really.)

By: Cam

Cam — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:04:03 +0000

It works in Opera if one uses the ‘fit to width’ function under ‘View’.

Of course one shouldn’t have to use it.

By: GFW

GFW — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:08:47 +0000

Hmm, I liked having some sort of “texture” to the background. How about a thin grid in green over that blue – so it echos the grid in the banner, but bigger (say 4x bigger on each side)?

(Is it obvious I’m a big fan of the banner? Top notch, that is.)

By: Jim Beacon

Jim Beacon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:42:37 +0000

Huh. Even if the NYT editorial department doesn’t know what they’re doing, apparently their layout department does because that slight narrowing of the content column really does the trick. Who’a thunk it? Buty it *is* much more readable now and the extra space between it and the right-hand column stops my eyes from tracking over there when I’m reading the content. Cool.

I’d still like to see the base font size kicked up a notch — and the elimination of the green text. All black or dark blue text all the time, please… my eyes… my eyes…

By: paulm

paulm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:28:22 +0000

looks better.

The sidebar needs to be a wee bit narrower too…maybe 250px max.

By: John Hollenberg

John Hollenberg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:24:45 +0000

Looks better here.