Design frozen-ish

Okay, I haven’t checked it in anything but Firefox, though the CSS should be simple enough not to screw up in any major browsers. What you’re seeing (assuming you’re not reading this from the year 2045 or whatever) is the base design from which I’d like to do some innovative crap. Like a floating livesearch menu that expands from an unobtrusive (yet omnipresent) design element and sits translucent on the side of the screen. Amongst other things. It’s not amazingly groundbreaking, I guess, but I’d like to do it nicely/well.

Maybe the breaking down of chronology could happen at some point, but I don’t really have any great ideas as to how to do that effectively. I also haven’t bothered to validate this thing yet. Should do that at some point. It’s semantically fine, though.