My name is Mason Porter. I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Previously I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
New Blog Format
(1) Let me know what you think of the new format.
(2) Please give me suggestions for additional changes, given that I am thinking about this now.
The sub-heading paragraph is a wall of text doom - I liked it better as a sidebar. Each entry has a gazillion widgets and things to press, how do I get to the comments? (Ok, so it was easy to figure out, but still. :)
What are the reactions voting for? I can't figure out if I should vote yea or nay on the part 2 of photoblog post. I guess I should click abstain, but if I do that I'm not really abstaining from voting...
More seriously though, I like the new colors, but I have to agree with Zif -- the text at the top and the sheer number of buttons are a little overwhelming.
The text at the bottom was the same text as before. I actually do like it on top, but I've now shortened it, so that it's one line. That should make it better.
I removed the explicit quick-editing and quick-emailing options. (I assume you see the latter but not the former.)
I have also adjusted the 'reaction' thing slightly. That was one of the features I particularly wanted because I figured some people might give feedback without giving full comments. (Though if I end up seeing lots of 'nays' and few 'yeas' then I'm going to go with the only positive routine because I would find that very demoralizing.)
The other things I really wanted were to change the layout just because it was time for a change and also to adjust/add some of the things on the sidebar.
(1) Turn and face the strain?
ReplyDelete(I read over RSS, so all the cosmetics are lost in the wash.)
(2) TALLER!
Lemming: I don't understand either comment. (I understand the parenthetical comment about RSS but not the comment before that.) Please elaborate.
ReplyDeleteThe sub-heading paragraph is a wall of text doom - I liked it better as a sidebar. Each entry has a gazillion widgets and things to press, how do I get to the comments? (Ok, so it was easy to figure out, but still. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat are the reactions voting for? I can't figure out if I should vote yea or nay on the part 2 of photoblog post. I guess I should click abstain, but if I do that I'm not really abstaining from voting...
First, I was quoting Bowie, without any real relevance to the words beyond the song title.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I was just trying to get you to stand on your chair. This is dinner, and it's hard to hear over all of the racket.
More seriously though, I like the new colors, but I have to agree with Zif -- the text at the top and the sheer number of buttons are a little overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteThe text at the bottom was the same text as before. I actually do like it on top, but I've now shortened it, so that it's one line. That should make it better.
ReplyDeleteI removed the explicit quick-editing and quick-emailing options. (I assume you see the latter but not the former.)
I have also adjusted the 'reaction' thing slightly. That was one of the features I particularly wanted because I figured some people might give feedback without giving full comments. (Though if I end up seeing lots of 'nays' and few 'yeas' then I'm going to go with the only positive routine because I would find that very demoralizing.)
The other things I really wanted were to change the layout just because it was time for a change and also to adjust/add some of the things on the sidebar.