I’ve toyed around with a variety of different solutions, and think I’m going to stick with this for awhile. I even thought about Curtis’ idea of trying to recreate the old format – but that seems like a lot of work for very little payoff, given how tired of it I’ve become. But I haven’t been able to get the Squawkbox tool to size right, so I’m going to stay with the Blogger comments tool for now. It actually appears to be more flexible graphically, although I’ve had two occasions in the past year when I’ve been glad that I could delete defamatory statements about others from the comments tool – and I’m not sure that I can do that with this version.

 

Perhaps the most interesting (bizarre?) aspect of this format is how different it looks in Internet Explorer & Firefox. In Firefox, the column on the left is maybe only two-thirds as wide as it appears in Internet Explorer. I’m more apt to use Firefox myself, but I can see that I’m going to have to watch the spacing on certain items, like photographs and linebreaks in poems.