Excellent! Thanks!

I'm digging into CSS.

Why? I'm considering the possibility of moving the left nav to the top -- making it horizontal instead of vertical. (This would be like how you have it on the VineType site, or something similar.) The reason I'm thinking about it is that I find myself wishing the page was wider.

"Real estate" on the page is limited, width-wise, if we want to stay viewable on a screen res of 800 x 600. Google's ad-enabled search results in the middle "content" column beg that column's width to be at least 500px, minimum. Google's (and just about anyone else's, I guess) verticle "side bar" ads are usually at least 120px wide. Having the navigation menu on the left seems to beg a minimum width of about 100px or more.

Regarding the possibility of moving the nav menu to the top, I'm certainly open to advice and counsel. I know that a blog's nav tree usually needs that unlimited vertical room to grow. But I'm even thinking of drop downs... I would be deeply indebted if you have any tips or pointers or advice or counsel on that potential switchover....  :-)

I really like the VineType software and its whole approach.

If making the switch to top-mounted nav proves too big a mouthful to chew or just wrong (bad idea), I may give up on the 800x600 screen res, and do like Andreas Viklund does (use a wider page width, targeting a minimum screen res of 1024).