Following Dina Mehta's lead I am trying zonkboard in my sidebar . If it doesn't add an extemporaneous aspect to my relationship with visitors I'll remove it--weblog space is, after all, too limited to throw in all possible features. (Two-three weeks is my present guess as to an adequate tryout.).
Ah...while on subject of improvements. Am trying out BBedit as a template editor (with option to combine with Dreamweaver. Combination of the two may make web page improvements and mainenance easier for my relatively low interest in, and skill with, coding]