My theme is based on the default theme and this annoyed the hell out of me in the beginning. I came up with a different solution. What I did was two things:

1. Make the font-size smaller.

2. Force the left link to stay on the left half of the screen and the right side to stay on the right (with a break between them)

I feel this is much nicer than the default. For an example, see my Simple CSS Text Boxes post and look at the navigation links.

I did this by editing the style.css for my theme and changing the the alignleft class to:

.alignleft {float:left; font-size:.75em; width:230px; text-align:left; height:22px;}

and the alignright class to:

.alignright {float:right; font-size:.75em; width:230px; text-align:right; height:22px;}

Works really well for me. I found you via the Bumpzee WordPress Designers group (which I found through Dane). You got some very interesting stuff here!

You may have seen it on some blogs and maybe even your own: The navigation links to next and previous posts appear to be jumbled or even wrapped around each other looking terrible. This is usually on the WordPress default theme but can happen on other …