CAroline, if you do ctrl plus the minus key, only the site you're looking at looks small.

But on that subject, David, with everything else nice and big, the text in the box when you're posting is much smaller - and if you make everything else a bit smaller, the text in the box is absolutely titchy. Is there a happy medium?

Mind you with the size of stuff I think it's probably impossible to please everyone, given that we're reading it on all sorts of different screens in different conditions.

Thanks - Caroline and Emma can you tell me the computer type (mac/pc) and browser type you are using?

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I tried that Emma but it then changed other sites too...

I'm using a PC with IE, David...

anything in particular that is too big or just the whole thing?

I mean all the text?

any chance you know which version of Internet Explorer you're on?

Thanks, David, for looking into the word count issue, although I suppose as long as I know what the real word count is it doesn't matter. Except it could be off-putting to some readers if the story looks longer than it is.

Other issues :

When I'm making corrections I sometimes lose whole sentences or get a garbled paragraph.

When I click for a paragraph break when correcting, the cursor jumps off the text and the page scrawls down so I have to scrawl up again and reposition the cursor. A bit time-consuming.

The text posted on the page changed to tiny print and it made no difference if I did an author's edit, changing the font size with the bar, or clicking on the +/- signs on the page itself.

I don't much like the 'expertise' heading.

Sheila

Sorry I meant to add to what others said about added hits when I linked my blog to WW. There did seem to be a noticeable spike, but it could be accounted for by a link to facebook.

Oh, and congratulations on the much more attractive layout and larger print

Sheila

Cornelia, if you are writing in Word, then pasting into WW, you could try pasting first from Word into a plain text editor (to strip out all the hidden gunk from Word) and then copying and pasting the plain text into WW.

Notepad might work for this purpose, but I find Notepad++ more reliable and generally better (it's free, like Notepad, just needs to be downloaded and installed). I know it makes an extra step, but it's usually quite quick - just "select-copy-paste" twice instead of once. Lots of websites and apps have problems with text pasted directly in from Word, so it's a handy solution even if David manages to sort it out for WW.

Edited by calliaphone at 11:07:00 on 07 January 2014

It's the 7th now, and the first time I've opened WW to discover the changes, and it looks great.

Thanks calliaphone. I will look into doing  this.

I have the same problem with tiny text. I'm using a Mac and Chrome.  It's fine after it's been posted, just tiny when you're typing in the comment box.
Just edited to change this to 14pt, but it'll probably make it too big when it's posted.
Edited by NMott at 19:06:00 on 07 January 2014
 
Oddly, that's made it smaller
Edited by NMott at 19:07:00 on 07 January 2014

Also, it's a bit annoying that when you owner edit a comment and post, you're sent to ther beginning of the thread, which is this case, is back 5 pages.

Naomi - that last one should be resolved now thanks. The small text in chrome/mac may take a few days.
Edited by david bruce at 09:13:00 on 08 January 2014

Sometimes I'm told I must be a member to post a comment to the group, but I am already a member. I have to go back to my list of groups to get in. But that's not so bad as posting a comment and then have some of it disappear when I try to edit it. That's not down to Word, which I use for fiction posts, and which throws up the same problem when I try to edit the posted text.  

Sheila