crabwalk redesign

Observant crabwalk.com readers will notice a redesign debuting today, the first in crabwalk.com’s nearly five-year (!) history. It’s not perfect yet — the comments section on entry pages is laid out kinda screwy, there are some sticky CSS problems in IE/Win, and the new look isn’t yet applied to all the subpages — but I figured I’d put it out there. Please let me know if anything looks screwy on your computer, or if you have general thoughts.
Some highlights of the new look:

• The “Recently Played Tracks” section in the sidebar, which tells you the last 10 songs played on my home Mac’s iTunes. (I almost always have it on shuffle, so you’re generally seeing a random subset of my songs.)
• The pulldown archives menu, which brings crabwalk.com’s technological sophistication all the way to 2002.
• The “Most Recent Stories” in the sidebar, which automagically pulls my three most recent stories for The Dallas Morning News.
• A wider column width, which makes it much easier to include photos and video in posts. And, with that, larger type for us older types.
• A much-disputed increase in white space, which means it looks better on big monitors, although potentially worse on small ones.

Comments, criticisms, and plaudits all equally welcome.