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Dear readers,
We’ve spent the last month or so road-testing the new design, while combing through your feedback, and today we’re unveiling the new New Bwog.
We’ve done our best to listen to your comments, bringing back the centered scroll and serif type that many of you favored. We’ve also revamped the logo (that’s Low Library in the background).The Hawk, City, Arts, Events, and Lost and Found sections remain the same, and we look forward to using them more and more. We’re always looking for feedback, of course, so sound off in the comments and/or send your suggestions to bwog@columbia.edu.
Thanks for reading,
James Downie
Bwog Editor
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@nice well done, bwog.
@fo sho Looks way better. Good work bwog!
@hi! thanks for fixing the right-bar, now the next question is does your form factor really have to be so wide? basically anyone without a widescreen has to use the horizontal scroll bar. otherwise, nice work :)
@Older Interface looked better on the iPhone. Otherwise I like it a lot.
Sent from my iPhone, bitches.
@^^^ no homo.
@if i could fuck a blog. i’d fuck the new bwog.
@thanks for listening! this is so, so much better. and sexier! yay!
@omg this is fierce.
@looks beautiful!
@Beautiful! But... Still with the color-based CAPTCHA. This is easily defeated by a bot that can read “background-color” and can be difficult for color-blind people.
@THANK YOU seriously bwog PLEASE LISTEN to the needs of the color-blind!!!
@awesome thanks, bwog! you actually listened to us :)
@KER Very nice!
@excellent go team
@hi! right-hand bar is bugged in IE7 and no i’m not switching to laggyfox
@yay it’s fixed!! great!
@like it I like this SOOO MUCH BETTER!!!
@where is the weather?!?!?!
@ohhh... …
@Sarah Looks great!
@oo-la-la, Bwog! You are like the sleeper crush in my history lecture who finally started trying. Want to hang out this weekend? Go on a long walk looking for Hawks? Lecture hop? Just sit around being cynical about everything?
@ehhh nvmnd w3 is lame even google fails it
@anonymous_donor i will possibly donate money to bwog if it becomes w3 standards compliant
@Inconsistency when you hover over the “The Blue and White” tab from the home page it turns bold and is underlined, inconsistent with the other tabs. When on the Hawk tab, for example, this inconsistency goes away
@SEXY I LIKE!
@Anna I like it.
@Good job! love it!
@MUCH BETTER
@what how many redesigns are you gonna go through?
@Ahhh. PRETTY.
@eh the blue is too dark for me.
@cupcake i agree, the blue is too dark. now the site looks sad :( a lighter blue would cheer it up!
@awwweee aw bwog, i love you!! be my valentine!! :)
@internet explorer The main page looks screwy in my IE browser. Don’t ask me what version. Anyway, the right hand sidebar overlaps with the main entries.
@Well maybe you should switch to a real browser.
@internet explorer I knew someone would say that. Everyone is always trashing IE, but I like it. Firefox puts your bookmarks in a drop down menu and I think that’s fucking annoying.
@_abh_2134_at__columbia bwog, just noticed a bug. when you’re on the “city” page for example and try to hit the “home” tab, it doesn’t work. ALSO it is common practice these days to pre-load content that is under tabs instead of having to do an entire page refresh.
finally, one other pretty major problem… you have some weird character encodings in the source, and youre throwing off the w3c validator.. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=bwog.net&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
otherwise, looks great.
@Nice The logo looks really nice and the site in general is easier on the eyes. Great redesign! A+
@One Problem- Your individual article pages are still in the crappy old format
@SOOOOO much better. About freaking time
@bwog i think it would be cool if you could make it so we could customize our layout.. older version, old version, new version… new version with events on the right, etc.
@awww i really liked all that info being on the right side….
@... http://valleywag.gawker.com/5151709/economic-crisis-leads-to-economists-crisis
@when you read full posts and post comments, you still get the old design…
@Anonymous sooo classy bwog me likey. i don’t know why but it makes me feel like im going on a boat ride around new york city on a summer night with dinner, dancing, and fine wine.
@first! Nice and classy, BWOG.
I like it.
@comments the logo is MUCH better. I like the color better too. But, uh, the rightmost column intersects with the main screen.