Thank you everyone for the responses. I’m hammering out all the kinks one at a time and getting ever closer to my graphic goal here. I find it funny that the further I go into this redesign process; my site is taking on an appearance closer and closer to my previous design. I originally had lofty ambitions for a complete new layout with a single column and no sidebar. But now that I have all those Moveable Type interactive features on the right, I’ve grown fond of them and don’t want to see them go. Sure, some of them are a bit ugly, like the colander for instance, but their just damn practical. I’ll be shuffling them about and possibly removing some of them in the future. I had also designed a headmast for the new layout; but now that I have the sidebar I think it would look a bit too busy.

I’m going to take bre’s advice and beg you all for assistance. My content is locked to the left side of the page and nothing I try to do will place it in the center of the page where I want it. It’s driving me batty! Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this problem? I’d ask Nathan at Baltiblogs, but I feel bad taking his free time with all my irritating idiot html questions.