Eric: having the comments on the right was a conscious design decision. I feel that the importance of comments are almost on par with the importance of the posts themselves and thus their placement which visually equates the two in terms of importance.

The site is running on a (rather excellent) theme – like nearly any other Wordpress site out there – however, the “template” as you call it is my design on top of it. See a demo of the original theme to compare (the comments on the original theme, for example, are placed in the traditional spot, under the post.)

It makes reading easy and it’s just simplicity.

The comments in the right sidebar is really weird – and not very usable. After the post itself I find works best – but that’s simply an opinion. Since you’re using a template, you should be able to snap those tags around and have it do what you want.

Cheerio!

Not sure about such a large font size, but other than that the new look is way better than that weird layout you had before.

Great look!

@gordee: I hear you on the Internet Explorer issue. However, a lot of User Experience is about focus. Do you support everyone with an experience that’s the lowest common denominator or do you take a subset of the global audience and give them an exemplarily experience? The difference between, for example Flash Lite trying to support every handset out there and giving users a sub-par experience across billions of handsets to Apple supporting just one handset and giving users a lovely, optimized experienced. A lot of user experience is about focus.

That said, I decided to focus my efforts on the 80% of users who visit my blog using Firefox and Safari. I realize that those numbers are very different to a regular consumer web site and that not everyone has the luxury to do that. (And, I did cave in after I wrote that and tested it on Internet Explorer – it has a few formatting issues but, the content is accessible/legible and I may tweak it a little further in the coming days.)

@Filip: Thanks, I hadn’t noticed the input fields issue since I’m always logged in to my blog and don’t see them – testing FAIL! :-) I’ve fixed this now and the comment field got a little bit more love in the process also :-)

@Niels: Thank you, man; that’s probably one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said to me :)