I made the sidebar 30 pixels wider by taking away space from the content. The blog area is still wide at 778 pixels, so it doesn’t hurt anything. This makes a big difference because the sidebar was too wide before. You can give your categories longer names without the names wrapping, and I added the count for each one in parenthesis next to it, thanks to wp_list_categories with the argument, show_count=1 in WordPress MU.

I’m taking advantage of the extra space by clarifying things. Instead of “Search Here” and “Search All,” the search engines say “Search This Blog” and “Search All …

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Check out the new background for Thripp.com. Instead of light green, it’s a light green subtle mesh pattern.

If you don’t see it on the page, refresh the stylesheet in your browser’s cache by pressing Shift + F5.

The new background is nice on the eyes and more interesting. Enjoy.