Times A-Changing
If you are a regular reader of PoliGazette you will have noticed that the color scheme of the site changed suddenly.
As announced a few weeks ago in a post called “Layout of PoliGazette,” we were thinking about redesigning the site. We wanted to make it easier in use for our readers, we wanted to be able to present serious, lengthy analysis in a better way, and we wanted to separate the blog itself from (original) news reports. This meant that the site itself had to be redesigned.
What you see now is not what PoliGazette will look like later this year. Our very own Jason has taken it upon himself to create the new design and to implement it. In other words, PoliGazette will change significantly in the coming weeks.
However, the colors you see now will function as the foundation. Jason will use this theme as the foundation for the new PoliGazette. An important goal of the redesign is to make it, as said, easier in use, cleaner in appearance, and faster to load. We know that, with the old design, it took some users quite some time to load the entire (front)page. This will not be the case once the new design is implemented.
Until the do-over is finished, we’d like to ask you to be patient with us. We may not appear very original now, but that will change. We will have separate parts for in-depth analysis, news reports, and the blogposts. These articles will all be distinguished from each other, making it easier for you to skip between them and to keep track of articles (and comment sections) you find interesting. It will also enable new visitors to find in-depth analysis, for instance, that were written a week or two ago, without having to do too much searching.
In the meantime, if you have any suggestions for the design, for user functionality, and so on, please leave a comment here, explaining what you would like to see (and why).
better already!
Clean, fast, on the right path
by the way. If you want author’s name to show up put this in the template. Typically the index.php, right above the_content.
<?php the_author() ?>
Thanks! I saw that was missing only now.
I also see that every 2nd comment becomes extremely dark. We’ll work on that.
Test of comments.
Everything seems to show up fine in Firefox.
Comments test in IE, not logged in…
Comments test in IE, logged in
Testing comments
BTW, Jason, you mentioned that you disabled some plugins which seems to be what allowed my comments to be processed normally from an IE browser.
I just wanted to mention that the site has never functioned very well with IE- my other computer has a later IE version than the one I’m using right now and it was manageable but unattractive (distortion of the header, etc.) and when you guys first launched it there were some problems loading the page.
The plug ins seem to be a big problem I think (I noticed earlier this morning before you made the change, that in addition to problems with commenting the page was also ‘wobbling’ or vibrating on the screen- that’s resolved now.)
I guess the plugins allow some features with other browsers- but can they be minimized or can the default be to leave them off and then people can enable them if they wish?
Overall, I’d say KISS is a good strategy.
I’m glad to see changes are in the works. I really liked the format of the original “van der Galien Gazette” - that was really good!! Especially the image of the leaves blowing in the wind. I’d even vote to bring back the image of the leaves blowing in the wind next to the stream (if a vote were to be taken). That was unbeatable imagery, in my opinion!
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