Yes, the synopses will be available. I'm just attempting to work out the details as to how best to accomplish that. I know how I'd like to do it, the problem lies in working out exactly how to accomplish that. Consider this version 0.5.
As to what's accomplished by the change, among other things it unifies the feel of the site more, and immensely simplifies the code that the site runs on behind the scenes. In addition, it more easily allows for upgrades and changes in the future, combining code from half a dozen places into a small handful of files in one location, while bringing things up to current standards allowing greater flexibility in the future.
Ok, a slightly tinkered version has been put up. Dates are bigger, the synopses are back. They may not be mouseover, but they're there. As well, some of the extra linespaces have been taken out, and the stories are now closer together. I've made one other small upgrade as well, and I hope people find that useful, too.
I've tested it in what browsers I can, namely Firefox, IE7, IE6, and Opera. It seems to render the same in each.
There's still one more change I'd like to put in there, however that will have to wait while I rewrite a different chunk of code behind the scenes.