1. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/StyleSheets
2. Right-click on the version of the style you wish to modify (e.g. FeedLight Aqua.nnwstyle) and select “Show Package Contents”
3. Open stylesheet.css in a text editor
4. Find the CSS selector for the header (body > .header h1 a) and edit the value of the font-size property within
5. Save the file and restart NNW, and you should be good to go!

I’m not sure there’s anything I can do about it, but here’s something you can try: Click anywhere on the fully-visible header, which should bring up a close button (x) in the top-left corner. Click on that, and you should have only one header left. Hope that helps.

Any idea why?

Best style ever.

a crime on the eyes, the worst piece of design i’ve seen on the web.

:)

If you must modify the stylesheet, however, the font-size of the content is declared in the following selector: body > .body > .content

Thanks in advance

Richard: There weren’t really any killer features that caused me to make the switch to NetNewsWire, and I even miss some of Vienna’s features (such as Growl support). I still maintain that Vienna is a fine piece of software, but with that said, like many open-source efforts, its UI design often leaves something to be desired.

NetNewsWire, on the other hand, really exudes the sort of polish that can only come from years of development. In addition, there are some nice touches like “Mark all headlines as read when opening a subscription’s homepage,” automatic marking of “dinosaurs” (feeds that haven’t been updated in a long time), and a more useful Activity window. I also appreciate the greater customizability it affords in terms of its interface.

For what it’s worth, I’ve also noticed that for whatever reason, NNW appears to download feeds faster than Vienna. It isn’t too noticeable if you don’t have a lot of them, but once you get into the triple digits, Vienna takes significantly longer to complete a refresh cycle. In my informal testing, NNW took 6 seconds to refresh ~150 feeds, while Vienna took about 25. This probably doesn’t matter much, as feed downloading is usually a background activity, but I thought I’d throw that out there anyway.

[EDIT: It just occurred to me that this is likely the result of my cranking the concurrent downloads up to 10 in the preferences. I have no idea how many feeds Vienna downloads simultaneously, but in any case, it doesn’t offer an option to set the number, so I still count that as a plus of NNW.]

Bryan: Great idea. I personally don’t see enough ads in my feeds to be bothered by them, but I can see how others might find them annoying. I’ve updated my styles to include that (and some additional) ad-blocking code. If this causes problems for anyone, please let me know.

.feedflare { display: none; }

Seems to work well (at least for me).