My new design is close enough to done for me to make it live. There are still some problems - my blogroll dropdown is a mess, I need to add “Recent Posts” to the navigation, I’m discovering the dropdown menus don’t handle nested lists very well, and I have to fix the comments template - but I can fix them all… later. Right now it’s past my bedtime 
If you notice any other problems, or have any suggestions, please let me know.
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August 28th, 2007 at 9:10 am
This is all small detail stuff. The arrows in the cascades disappear when you roll over the menu item.
Also the cascades seem to have an inconsistently appearing border on the right and bottom side. All pretty small in the grand scheme of things.