By the way, I forget where you and I talked about it, but it seems from this thread on the Sandbox forums that you definitely can use this ‘sprinkling’ method with Sandbox.

Oh, and I think you’ve done well with sprinkling the ads and the twitterings throughout the main page. hmmmm. I may have to “borrow” that idea.

Well, now that I’m using a modified Matt’s Asides technique to style the individual posts on the main page, the technique I was using to sprinkle the ads does not work. Unless I can figure it out I’m going to have to put the ads in the footer or perhaps on the indivdual blog post pages (wonder if that’s still in keeping with the TLA terms of service?).

I’m currently using a plugin called “the_excerpt Reloaded” to truncate all of the entries. The first entry was already styled like that when I started to mod this theme, except the image said “Fresh.” I think I may go with that look for all of the traditional blog posts.

Two things are delaying the progress right now: 1) not enough time lately and 2) can’t decide if I want to switch to TXP. I think that using “sections” instead of “categories” to define my TH entries is a far superior method. How difficult is the learning curve on TXP?

Yeah, you can use the XML-RPC feature in WP to have del.icio.us post a daily digest of all your links to your blog automagically. It’s pretty nifty. I’m pretty sure too that you can do something similar with flickr but that I’m _really_ not sure of.

At any rate, I really like this design. It’s nice and easy on the eyes. Very nice.

@alli: I didn’t know that, but it sounds like something I’d be interested in. One of the blogs I read has a sidebar section called “A la Carte” where the author posts 3 – 5 external links with short descriptions. You can comment on the entire entry, not the individual items. I wonder if he’s using something like del.icio.us for that?