I like your suggestions. I probably do need to name the thing. Since I wasn't sure how it would display type I stayed away from any lettering. Sporangia comes up automatically with a type font I don't particularly like, but I'm not sure I can change it. Gotta go spelunking again into the nether regions of customization. I need to shrink the masthead about 6%, I don't know how to do that. I want the mauve borders to line up with the brown borders--that is probably going to take some experimenting. Unless the new code push has made it possible to enlarge or shrink the borders. I don't think we can do that at the no-pay level.

Because DW has fewer options it is actually easier to customize. Eventually I will get to work on the Lj journal, and play with colors and the Masthead. I think my cross post command just kicked in for the first time, I need to name which journal I am commenting on to stop confusion.

I feel your computer pain. The hours wasted on it make me sooooo mad.

Don't ever put gravel on your yard except for the driveway. Plants will grow through it, and it looks terrible. It seems great in theory--Don't go there.