For those of you who browse the web site directly rather than reading my RSS feed, I spent some time mucking around with site design over the past two days. You should see a new theme, a “most popular items” widget, and a “recent activity” widget that displays recent comments on posts. You should also be seeing images in many posts now; I’ll try to do this more from now on. Lastly, most long posts are truncated on the main page so that you can easily scan all the articles without too much scrolling. I did some testing in Firefox and IE. Please comment here if any of this doesn’t work.
Kudos to Richard and Emma Boakes — I took design inspiration from their elegant site and I’m using Richard’s MostWanted WordPress plugin .