Steve Walters, the brilliant Loyola economist who has written several columns for the WoW Journal, suggested that this blog needs a new look. What he wanted was just the title of each post, the opening paragraph, and then just a link to let the reader read more if they liked. This way people could see more of the “brilliant” columns posted in this forum.
I told Steve that since the webmaster of this site is clueless (that would be me), all I can do is choose another canned format from WordPress that might have some of what he is looking for. After an extensive search (3 minutes), I came across the format you are currently looking at.
So if you are looking at the WoW Journal this weekend, let me know what you think. Suggestions are more than welcomed, although if you think we should go back to the way it was you may be out of luck. I am not sure I know how to put it back.
Since we are adopting a new look, I should also announce another WoW Journal milestone. There have now been over 2,000 comments posted to the columns offered in this forum. Comment 2,000 was some random thoughts from dberri. But comment 2,001 was offered by Jason, who of course often offers extremely insightful comments.
– DJ
Wages of Wins Journal 
John Beamer
June 9, 2007
When is Steve going to join the WoW blog full time?
dberri
June 9, 2007
John,
Not sure what you are asking for. Steve writes as much as he wants now. So this might be as full-time as he is going to be.
John Beamer
June 9, 2007
Ahh — didn’t realize. He’s still described as a guest blogger!
Great that he contributes here.
Luiz Asp
June 9, 2007
I like the new look better, but I think you shouldn’t use this light blue on titles. Better try a dark blue or something like that. This light green is even worse.
Such light colours ain’t good to the eye, although they look nice. And, also, it makes your blog look like baby stuff.
I’m brazilian, and I love your blog. I read it everyday, despite of this damn Knicks I root for.
Kent
June 9, 2007
2 suggestions …
(1) I like the new look, but it only displays any content of the most recent post. I found it useful to glance at the screen and skim the most recent set of posts.
(2) You should have a contest where the author of comment #3000 gets a cat.
dberri
June 9, 2007
Luiz,
I don’t have the option to change colors, so if I stick with this format these are the colors.
Kent,
I also can’t figure out how to have the first paragraph of each post seen. Steve thought having the entire content of each post was a bit much. Now all we have are titles. I would prefer a title with the first paragraph. If anyone has any idea of how to do this in WordPress I would love to know.
Lane Young
June 9, 2007
I don’t mind the color scheme, but the fact that only one post previews at a time is incredibly annoying to me. I mean sure I check the site pretty much every day but I still like having multiple posts texts appear on the blog’s front page.
dberri
June 9, 2007
Lane,
I don’t like that either. But I can’t figure out how to get it to show the first paragraph of each post. If anyone has any ideas, let me know. I like the rest of this look, but I think the lack of information (like number of comments) on the other posts is going to get old real quick.
Greg Richards
June 9, 2007
I am fairly new to Wages of Wins, only been reading the last month or so, but the new layout is site for sore eyes. The other one was quite distracting and hard to read, but the material was worth the effort. Now we get great writing, and the format is more comfortable. Win. Win.
JLewis
June 9, 2007
Dave,
The new format is only about 1000 times better. I would have suggested it earlier but it didn’t want to sound like an ingrate. Now the look and usability matches the great content.
Keep it up!
Dylan
June 11, 2007
No, no, no! Please revert your RSS feed to send the entire article. I’m much less likely to read the article if I have to click through to the web site instead of being able to read it in my RSS reader application.
Westy
June 11, 2007
I agree with Dylan. I definitely would like the full post available via RSS.
As for how it’s presented on the site, I think it looks fine.
dberri
June 11, 2007
I would love to change how the RSS feed is working, but I can’t see how I do this. Anyone have any ideas?
dberri
June 11, 2007
Okay, I need people who asked about the RSS feed to look again. Did I fix it? I think I did but I need someone to tell me if it is now sending out full text as opposed to a summary. Of course, maybe you can’t tell until I post something.
Squinty
June 11, 2007
To me you are spending 2/3rds the front page space on voluminous links to the past. The font is too small for my eyes. I can increase it but that is another step.
huey
June 11, 2007
I don’t like it.
TDDG
June 11, 2007
Dave:
As a RSS reader, I don’t like the format either. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to fix it!
Dr. Walters:
I’m going to stop recommending your text book to every one I see unless you get the format reverted! Call it blog black mail. Blog mail. Er… something…
Dylan
June 11, 2007
Game Two Thoughts came in my RSS feed with the full article. Thanks for reverting that.
Zeth
June 12, 2007
Any chance you could get the whole post back into the RSS feed? I love reading your posts (and think the site looks fine, by the way), but tend to get through them as part of scanning all of the Blogs/News of my day. The way it’s currently set up, I need to click an extra time to get to the full post – for anything that doesn’t grab my interest right away, that’ll dissuade me…
Keep up the good work.