Can I add something “I” hate? LOTS of whitespace in the header. Given how vital that space is on every webpage, maximize it! If I were doing the header design I’d make the banana logo a little larger (particularly wider) and have the site description beside the logo with a pretty font (in fact I’d make it part of the header image). Then add your RSS feed buttons (a round version instead of the standard) up within the header and aligned toward the bottom right.

I agree about the size of the RSS icon as a sidebar element but also with Web-Betty about its importance and need to be higher on the site. On balance, if I couldn’t change it, I’d sacrifice aesthetics for placement. People will care much more about having to go find the subscribe option than they will about it being larger than life.

One thing I LOVE is the way your images are presented within your posts. With the framing and caption. I’ve been considering a similar change to a few of the web projects I manage. It looks stylish and is a great way to keep relevant text (aka caption) with the images.
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Personally, I don’t think you need a full redesign–just a new background image and a new header color. Everything else (IMHO) works really well.

Thanks for pointing out my grammar error. Really. I have added this to the “Oops” page and have edited the post (not removing my mistake, just pointing it out). This is the kind of grammar mistake I dislike in others and loathe in myself.

I figured you were a he, however, you know what the Master says about assume.

Thanks for the heads-up on the numbered comments. I actually just used the default and I didn’t know it did that on the mac/safari. Time to go hunt down some css selectors…

And yeah, I’m not so happy with the background and header, but I just decided to go ahead with it anyway. I’m working on a site-redesign. Just need some time and space to do it away from the day job.

Thanks, and sorry there weren’t more things for you to hate.

P.S. “compliment” in “The Good” should be “complement”.

compliment – to say nice things about
complement – goes well with

(well yeah, those aren’t the exact definitions but they’ll do)

P.S. #2 I’m a he.
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