Brand new–and trying hard!

looks nice:) welcome to WP:))))

lovely job! I understand what you’re saying, especially about the cursing. ??

Looks good to me in Firefox and IE. Just one minor gripe: if I set a large font size (which I always do), part of the text in your header (“There is nothing so impossible in nature..”) disappears under the menu column.
You could probably change that in the CSS by making the header live in a box that ends where the menu column begins, then the text should wrap instead of sliding under the menu.
@ the developers: Actually, the default wp-layout.css does the same thing, so perhaps it should be changed? Or is there a reason not to that I’m missing? Not a huge deal but good for accessibility on sites where people don’t hack the CSS all that much.

You can write up the CSS any way you want quite easily.

Looks pretty good to me. Congrats!

Thanks everyone, and especially thanks for the suggestion about large font sizes–I didn’t test that, but should have.
Now I get to stretch my (very limited) CSS abilities even further to try to fix it! That’s good, that’s how I learn.

Looking good here ?? Enjoy your blog and switch to WP ??

looks great… a lot of us are learning on the fly here …. here’s some resource url’s i found most helpful for understanding the css and css2 standards and how they fit with the page, hope you find them helpful too :-]
https://www.nypl.org/styleguide/
https://www.codehelp.co.uk/html/css4.html
https://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/basics/index.html#anchor1
https://evolt.org/article/Kissing_Print_Versions_of_Pages_Goodbye/20/22225/index.html
https://www.nic.fi/~tapio1/Teaching/indexlist.php3