Previously, the headline (which is essentially a sidebar) was floated to the
right; this had the benefit of allowing the content to surround it on the lower
portion of the page, though that's arguably a poor design decision. With this
change, this does not occur, but the real reason for this change was to ensure
that block elements (such as divs) do not overflow into the headline.
This uses minimalist styling---as much as possible is done using the body
element. The footer positioning was tricky with varying content length. Since
the headline currently contains only images, my decision was to just get away
with setting a min-height to something reasonable for the headline content
height.
This was a bit of a difficult decision. One one hand, I perferred for the user
to select his/her own font via their browser settings. That said, the user still
has the option to override the font and use his/her own defaults.
This font choice is nearly identical to the current site font choice.
Mike Gerwitz