It’s done! Everything works! Hooray!!
Welcome to version 4.0. A simple, imageless design with a few nice JavaScript effects thrown in. The big thing I was going for here was having the comments and comment-posting form available on the main page so there wouldn’t be any page-loading or leaving the page involved to post a comment until you hit the post button. Surprisingly, doing this (adding the comment code and comment form once for each of the ten posts on the front page) did not increase the page size a lot; only about as far as the images from the old theme would have taken up. I may play with some other WordPress API things in the coming weeks to add some spice to the sidebar (or at least change it up a bit).
I’ve tried to do what I do best and keep the design clean with straight, lightly-hinted lines and even margins. If you have any feedback, or something doesn’t work the way you think it’s supposed to, I’d like to hear about it!
I’d also like to hear if everything works correctly in IE, so I can at least put up a block page with a Firefox link instead of having people view a page that looks shitty in IE.
Wow, this looks and operates really cool. The only thing I can see that doesn’t look right is on the sub-pages that are shorter than the right column of links. When this happens the right column only goes as far down as the left column and presents a scroll for just the right column. Safari.
Yeah, for now that’s intentional. For some reason, the auto height of the parent element refuses to take into account the height of the child (menu); so the whole thing would be shorter than the menu, and that just looked awful. If you know of a way to fix that, I’d sure like to know.