New look

by Brad Setser
August 18, 2008

To state the obvious, this blog looks a bit different today than it did last week. It was redesigned as part of a broader redesign of the Council’s web page — and the webpage of the Center for Geoeconomic Studies. Most of the early kinks have been ironed out I hope — but if anything seems off, let me know.

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  • Posted by mark turner

    Café con leche, anyone?

    Looks fine, Mr. Setser. The main text body part looks a bit thinner. Hope it can carry your charts.

  • Posted by DR

    Nice, but where is the print link page?

  • Posted by bsetser

    mark — i am a bit worried about the “thinness” of the main column. hope to get it changed — but no guarantees.

    DR — I never used the print link function. where was it and what did it do (if it let you print the post, wow — i didn’t realize that was possible). a bit more please.

  • Posted by Brad

    I’m sure you’re aware, but the charts aren’t displaying properly with the new narrower main column.

  • Posted by bsetser

    on a backward looking basis, they will need to write code to reduce the size of the graphs (or I need to shrink them manually); on a forward looking basis, i will be doing smaller graphs until the width of the main column increases.

  • Posted by Simon

    It fills about only 2/3 of my screen. The banner at the top is very dull. Brown???

    It’s not very interesting or attractive sorry.

    Mind you I do use Mozzila perhaps its optomized for IE.

  • Posted by bsetser

    Brown is the new blue — or at least it is the new color of the CFR’s webpage. That isn’t gonna change. There is a bit more scope (I hope) to make better use of the page.

  • Posted by dyork

    Drab. And too narrow.

  • Posted by ndk

    I agree with dyork. Any chance we could convert the header to real burled mahogany instead of these lifeless pixels? You guys have the budget for it.

  • Posted by DR

    “DR — I never used the print link function. where was it and what did it do (if it let you print the post, wow — i didn’t realize that was possible). a bit more please.”

    Brad,
    I believe the print function was in the mid-upper right hand corner. It was a small text link. I would use the print link to format the posts into a pdf so I could read them on my laptop while commuting home from work.
    Here are a couple of samples of past posts that I saved:
    http://vbinfo.cuwebservices.com/bradsreservegrowth.pdf
    http://vbinfo.cuwebservices.com/bradscorrelation.pdf

  • Posted by DR

    Brad,

    Did you get my post about the print function? Looks like it got deleted.

    I would like a print function in the new blog if possible.