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I couldn't find the close button either. The first thing i did? Right-click the black background, choose Inspect element, untick "display:block".

If the web developer isn't going to respect the user, then i refuse to respect their layout (and event handlers, and plugins, and...)

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I didn't have this problem in Chrome, perhaps s/he has fixed it?

Yes, he moved it to the right side of the blog. Glad that the complaint worked ;)

Of course you could do that, I also do that sometimes, but after being welcomed in such an unrespectful way I just didn't want to bother, since I assumed the quality of the article is the same as "welcome" message.

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