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I giggled a little bit when I saw the 6px numbering down the right side. Most people have trouble with anything below 11px or 12px, so to cut that in half is pretty funny. If you don't want the numbering, just remove it, otherwise it needs to be bigger.

Also, the post titles shouldn't be 20px. That's about what you would use on an <h1> tag and you typically only have one or two of them on an entire page (whereas you have 30 of them).

Scale everything down.

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FWIW, the post titles are 1.1 em, and numbering 0.4em. I didn't want those to be distracting, but still wanted them to be there anyway.

Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback and will think about how to tidy it up.

Here's a little trick if you're going to use em:

BODY {font-size:62.5%}

That makes 1em equal 12px, so 2em is 24px, 1.5em is 18px, etc.

You'll need to do this to get consistency across all browsers. Otherwise 1.1em could be 20px for me but 18px for you.

Here's a post that goes into much more detail: http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/

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