I’ve now installed Kitten’s “Comment HiLites” plugin. I haven’t settled on the colour yet. I’ll see how it goes but it seems to be working OK.

I’ve also found that you can add your RSS feed to your ShortStat resources list. This is great cuz now you can see how many people are hitting your feed. For my own part I’ve only put it on the “posts” feed cuz I figure that anyone who has linked to the “comments” feed will probably have linked to both and I don’t want to show double hits when in truth it’s a single enquiry. If you’re a WP user and haven’t messed with your feeds before it’s a doddle. Just add the “include_once” statement that you use for ShortStat on your other pages into the wp-rss2.php file just above the “xml version=” line. Yes that’s it! If you don’t use WP it may not be quite so easy as the extra code needs to be in a PHP file. If you need to see how it is done for non-WP or non-php feed files visit The Watchmaker Project. You could also take a look at Matthews post relating to ShortStat’s layout to see how I adjusted my layout.