For those of you who consider coding and design a craft project ...

I had some fun changing my comments last night.  There were a couple things I'd been meaning to do for a long time to make the comments easier for me to use and for all of us to read.

HERE IS WHAT THE COMMENTS USED TO LOOK LIKE:
I'd differentiated my comments from reader comments and I'd threaded my replies (put them after the comment to which I'd replied).  But over all, I feel like this text is all a jumble and hard to read or quickly scan or quickly understand.

HERE IS THE NEW COMMENT STYLING:
(1) First big change is the outline around each comment.  I feel like these are the "talking bubbles" of my comment conversation.  So much better than the blocks of text in the before image.  

(2) My whole comment is in a purple box.  I'm taking a que from iHanna and her pink comment box.

(3) My reply comments say "futuregirl replied ... "  Whew!  That's been bugging me for a LONG time.

(4) I took the date out of the box and put it below on the right.  I like having the date for context, but it's not an integral part of the conversation.  The old way, where it was on a line between the name and comment text just cluttered everything up.

(5) A change you can't see, but is super helpful for me:  When I'm logged in, each comment has a "reply" link that allows me to leave a threaded reply comment.  Now, when I click the link, I automatically add the beginning reply text "YourCommentName ..." in the comment box.  A little change, but a big help since I kept clicking the links to your blogs when I'd try to copy and paste your name.

And that's how I spent my craft time last night.  I went to bed wishing I had more time to code for myself. :)