I’ll have to do some CSS tweaking then, I guess.

Except the header and navigation, everything looks well-set.

If anyone wants a tut about using thumb images (and showing it only on those posts where a thumb exists), check out Justin Tadlock’s tutorial (I used it on my blog too).

I spent a lot of time on the sidebar in particular. It was one area that got out of hand the last time around, so I wanted to make sure I could make the best use of it from the start.

I kind of borrowed the design of the tabbed area from yet another NETTUTS tutorial (one of the earliest ones), but I made a lot of subtle changes to it that really made it work well with the rest of the design. It came out pretty well.

The social media icons were a nice discovery. I’d seen them around on several blogs (three that I subscribe to, even), and thought they would work well, so I did a little bit of detective work to track down their originator.

The sidebar is perfect. I love the design of the tabbed content area (Right down to the faint little gradient on the tabs, perfect!). And the social media buttons work perfectly with the background and I love the Twitter bird you found.

Great work, big thumbs up here!