Pete inadvertantly got me thinking about "the fold" the other day. The fold is the point on your site below which users must scroll to see content - and mine was pretty high. This is because I had a lot of whitespace above my banner image, large date headings, and a narrow site width.

To improve my site, I made some changes to my CSS today, removing the banner image, eliminating the white space in the header, and I also did away with my date headings. I like Pete's solution to date headers by printing the "n days ago..." just below his entry's title. I may try something similar. I also increased my site's width from 600px to 800px - allowing me to widen my side bar to make better use of my tag cloud.

All in all I'm happy with the way it turned out. I "brightened" the color scheme too - it was very dark before. My old CSS allowed about 1.25 posts to be seen above the fold. The new design allows for just over two and half. I'm going to start using my "readmore" plugin more heavily also, so my main site will show lots of post titles with descriptions instead.