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It should be theoretically possible with CSS to design a page where the type falls on a vertical grid. In reality, you rarely see this happen because multi-column sites make matching the grid values across the columns difficult, and browsers, particularly IE, have awkward ways of inserting inconsistent space around some block elements.
But the basic [...]

I’m putting enough energy into this particular theme that I think I might keep it around a while. Today I addressed a problem with my daily link posts, which come from del.icio.us with some embedded markup. The formatting of that markup was causing some bogus line breaks (on Firefox, the list bullet displayed on a [...]

I’m writing this working list so that I can keep a record of what I did to the Excel theme to get it the way I like it, as well as for anyone else who’s interested in learning how to hack up WordPress themes.
Issues:

The amount of vertical space consumed by the header region (seems to [...]

You’ll see the appearance of the site change pretty radically for the next few days. I’m trying out a few new themes and want to give each one some burn-in time, so I’ll leave each theme up for at least a day.
Apologies for any disorientation that results.