A few more design tweaks

Tried to make the site easier to navigate and read by simplifying a few things and adding some basic lines to differentiate between post and comments. Also doubled the 'previous | main | next' navigation from the top of individual pages to the bottom as well. Now, if you're reading the comments and scroll to the bottom of the page (and don't have anything pertinent to add in the comments ;-) you can navigate back, forward or up (to the main index page) easily.

Bonus hint: Another handy way I sometimes read the comments is to scroll down the page and 'ctrl-click' on all of the posts that have comments that I'm interested in reading to load them in the background in a tab (you are using Firefox or an analog, right ;-).

Thank you to those of you who have written in to suggest these or other improvements to the website design. I'm about done with tweaking and ready to move on to a redesign which may or may not change the way the weblog looks, but will certainly give me a better understanding of the code behind it and how to change it properly.

Comments

[Rob]

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/

Good ideas here. Plus, how 'bout linking to articles, instead of just copying the titles, as I often experience on your site.

[Sean Meade]

thanks for the link, Rob. i will look at it.

few links to articles because Tom pulls so many of them from actual papers (he's old fashioned that way ;-). i could go find the articles and link them, but have not been tasked by Tom so to do (with my part-time hours).

i'll make a deal: if anyone looks up the articles and links them in the comments or sends them to me, i will gladly link them from the posts.