Eric,

Is there a reason that instruction tells the reader to scroll up instead of just clicking?

I.e., instead of

Choose "Home" at the top of this page for more fine...

Click here for more fine...

I figure there's a reason, I just couldn't figure it out.

Eric,

It's true that regulars will likely learn how to use the new site.

A question I have is, what percentage of visitors will do any "learning" at all?

I'm sure there is a percentage of casual readers, including first-time visitors, who won't do any learning at all but will simply do what the average person would do when given this layout.

I can't claim to know what this percentage is, of course, or what the natural behavior of a first-time visitor would be.

Hi
Looks nice but...left edge of right hand column (about 1/4 inch) is hidden under the centre column.
Viewing at 800x600, IE 5.5

#2 - Brian, a better way to phrase that might be that only repeat readers will have to "re-learn" new behavior. New readers will probably naturally use the site however they wish, just like any other new site they visit. Maybe they'll automatically click on any one of the several places where one can jump directly to the "Etc." section, or maybe they'll focus primarily on Music, or Video, or whatever.

It is only readers that have been used to one way of doing thing and now have to do something else to accomplish the same ends that are affected by this. That's a bummer, as I've said, but unless anybody has a better way of accomplishing eight distinct page sections, we'll probably stick with something like we've got.

#3 - John, MSIE 5.5 is a buggy piece of crap with far more problems than you are listing, but rest assured that I'm throwing all of the current work out of the window and trying to find a design that works with that buggy old browser that doesn't take 30+ seconds to load a page. In the meantime, do yourself a favor and upgrade to MSIE 6. It's free and easy and MSIE 6 isn't a piece of crap.

Thanks. 8^)

#1 - Oh yeah, Brian, it was my fault. I just wasn't thinking when I typed that up. I only had a very small window of time to make changes to the individual post template, since (as you're aware, being an MT user yourself), changes to that template are immediately reflected on posts unlike the main templates. Sorry. Eric fixed it.