Widgets: Good Idea, Frustrating to Code

I'm in the process of pimping my blog. This isn't the complete version - I still have a lot of work to do - but it's definitely an improvement over the simple layout I had before. Of course, I'd be working much faster if Blogger hadn't completely changed the way their layouts are coded. >< As it is, it still feels really simple, but since I have to relearn pretty much the entire code, it's the best I can do right now.

Okay, there's my obligatory "I'm updating the layout yippee hooray" post, for the zero people who read this already. I'm going to stop talking now.