Tweaks

I'm taking the opportunity before school starts in a few weeks to get some tweaking of this site taken care of. Unfortunately, it has distracted me from posting anything of substance, though I hope to return to that shortly. As of right now, here are the changes, some regular readers may have already noticed, others not so obvious:

:: Hide and seek comments, meaning they can now be seen on the main page. Default is hidden, so click the #comments link next to the envelope (and show/hide--> helper) at the bottom of each post to see them.

:: Posting comments now happens in a pop up window, meaning you can see the images and rest of the post below when making comments, helpful in my opinion. FYI: You must show the comments in order to post one.

:: Archives in sidebar are now in a drop-down menu, so they take up less space.

:: Credits and personal stuff is now located at the footer. Scroll down to see.

:: Titles on the sidebar are now dark gray, as the old orange was hard to read.

Some more tweaking will be taking place, but not as time intensive as these modifications. For those reading this via a newsreader, I apologize if republishing this whole site floods your inbox with posts. Feel free to comment if you think these modifications are better or worse. To me they make things better by simplifying the page, making it easier to read/navigate, if only slightly.

And if anybody out there is an html whiz and can give me a pointer (or better yet, the code!) for how to extend the sidebar's gray box down to the footer, regardless of the sidebar's content, it would be much appreciated. Right now the gray box stops just below the content, and I feel it would look better if it reached all the way to the bottom of the page.