So here's where the blog goes. So basically, there's nothing fancy about this. The title will be a permalink to the post page, and the post content will follow. The posts will all be feature length posts, so I should be able to run no more than 3 on a page (maybe five, depends on how the spacing with the Short Ends go) and then just have a link on the bottom to "more entries" which essentially should just take you to the archives page. Maybe I should have five posts and just scrap that "more entries" idea. Okay, scrapped.
As for formatting, it's pretty simple. Blockquotes will be treated as simple indented paragraphs, all posts will be left aligned, images will not have a border. I'm probably going to stick to Arial, especially since most people don't use it anymore. Verdana was big for a while, and then Georgia took the world by storm. I'm going to use Arial.
The post footer will have the date of the post (which will also be a permalink) and a link to "comment" where they will get the post page with trackbacks and comments directly highlighted. I still have to work out how the post page will look.
Other than that, I'm thinking a very simple and faint grey rule below the footer should give the site some good visual hierarchy. I'm not sure if I should have a grey rule below the header logo (it will be a logo, not the text it is right now), but I guess that's something we can work out.
Oh, and no tagging. As much as I want to game Technorati, I'm going against tagging and going with simple categories. We'll only list the categories on the post page though.