Problems with new Blogger

This blog has moved to the new blogger, something which I had been avoiding for a long time. One of the reasons was the inevitable pain of customizing the standard blogger template. After spending more than 3hrs, I'm still not done. The right hand side column is skewed, I'm unable to reproduce my custom bullets in archive animation, and the whole archive thingy keeps swinging wildly when clicked.

I'll iron out these things over the coming week, and will see what more I can do. Keeping my fingers crossed.

#Update, Sept 2: I guess this is it. I'm not so happy to say the least. The animated (toggle/untoggle) archive list is not working so I had to go with static list, would have preferred a yearly rather than a monthly list. I'm sure I can still tweak the css a little bit and achieve that but I've spent too much time and energy in trying to improve the indentation on the sidebar. Subscription and Blogroll are fine but the rest are too much to the right. Except, it's interesting that the text "read more..." in Shared Feed appears with correct indentation. I couldn't find any clues from there. I would appreciate all help to make the sidebar look better. Also, is there a way to choose the colour of the bullets in css' list-style-type?

#Update, Sept 5: Yet another template. At least the right hand side column is better. Let's see...

#Update (2), Sept 5: All's well that ends well.