Some design changes...
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Over the weekend, we stretched out a bit on this here web page. Today, we've got a bit of a new look. The big blue wave, well, we hope it represents what's coming on Election Day.
One note about the Google Ads up top. We've now allowed Google to show you graphic ads along with the text ads. Hopefully, they'll still be contextual (even if they're sometimes contextual-but-wrong, like "Republican Singles Dating".)
Anyway, it's an experiment. We're going to re-evaluate later this fall, so stay tuned.
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9:18 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
too beaucoup! too beaucoup! In my Firefox 1.5, the whole right sidebar is off the page. !!
9:21 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
My Safari page is a mess.
9:44 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
Looks fine on my Firefox (no clue what version).
10:28 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
Any immediate problems are likely a cached-stylesheet issue. Hold down shift and hit refresh/reload.
Nothing moved (last night) horizontally last night.
Oct 11, '06
Nice looking. Well done.
10:36 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
Nope--the 4th column is still almost entirely off the page.
11:15 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
TJ -- has it been that way since Saturday, or just today? And do you mean that the fourth column is actually down there below the rest of the content -- or can you scroll sideways to see it? What resolution is your monitor set at?
(If it's been this way since Saturday, and you can scroll sideways, it's likely that you're in the last 8-9% of the world that's still at 800 pixels wide.)
11:17 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
Another question... do you have the same problem at CNN.com and ESPN.com?
11:42 a.m.
Oct 11, '06
I can't speak to Saturday, just today. My res was set at 1024; at 1152 (or whatever the next setting is after 1024) everything shows up. However, setting it BACK to 1024 just now has fixed the issue. So I guess I no longer have a problem. !!
I'm just a humble writer...this newfangled tech stuff befuddles me.
4:42 p.m.
Oct 11, '06
In both Safari and Firefox on my Mac the disclaimer text next to the Google ad is pushing the header down the page. Since you've got the nav bar positioned absolutely, this pushes the header behind the nav. Functionally, everything works, but for aesthetics, you may want to give the disclaimer another 50 pixels or so. Either that or drop the type size a bit. Otherwise, I dig the new look.
1:32 a.m.
Oct 12, '06
Nate, try holding down SHIFT and hitting REFRESH. Sounds like you've got a cached stylesheet.
Update: Made some minor changes to the size and font of the title bar. (Also pulled out the state map outline.) Also, changed up the color treatment of the Google ads to lighten things up a bit.
9:39 a.m.
Oct 12, '06
Actually, the problem is on my end; though it's still one that probably shouldn't occur. I run my screen at a relatively high resolution so I set the minimum font size at 12pt. Anything smaller, I have to strain to see. I suspect it's not a completely insignificant number of people who bump up font sizes for this reason or simply because of mildly impaired vision. Still, it doesn't affect functionality and probably only hits around 1-2% of your viewership, so not a major concern.
11:11 a.m.
Oct 12, '06
Got it, Nate. I think I've fixed it. Shift-refresh, and let me know...
2:48 p.m.
Oct 12, '06