I've been monkeying with my site design over the past week or so (hit refresh twice if you see any weirdness or don't see the colorful top border) and I've finally got it where I like it. I resurrected the little fixed border at the top from my old site. Here's the CSS in case you care:

Also, a fun little hack to get a little "torn paper" tail on the end of each entry:

The only messy part was to create a node-page.tpl.php and add that ul to the bottom of the template so that the effect works on pages.

This whole design thing is pretty fun. I could just keep changin 'er every day, but in the interest of doing something productive [read: I should be cleaning the toilet] I think I'll leave it where it is for a bit!

Now that the Tour is over, I've got some bandwidth for development. So, I've been doing some experimenting with Drupal. In response to a Drupal.org post, I tested a method to create an auto-fill search form that was fun to play with. I also wrote a pretty interesting slideshow module for VeloNews that we're testing out this week. The module uses CCK to associate a bunch of images, then constructs a slideshow and corresponding thumbnail gallery that scrolls using Javascript. I don't get to do much Javascript coding, but it's a lot of fun. I might play around with jquery and try to do some more complex animation, but it'll have to wait. I'm headed home this week to see the Folks. Cherokee should be lovely right now... nothing like August heat in Iowa!