I've done a lot here at at The Niggerati Network recently.
The
change in styling here coincides with the update of the site to Drupal
4.6. Now both sites are running under the same codebase. There have
been a lot of changes under the hood as well. Here, the big change is
the WYSIWYG editing, and the privatemsg function has been replaced by a
contact page that emails your message.
The editor uses the TinyMCE editor widget. It uses hot keys, by the way...control-i toggles italic, control-b
toggles bold. You got the indent button for your block quotes, the
anchor and image dialogs work, and the button with the little broom
cleans up stupid HTML. Lovely. I have no idea how to customize it
yet...when I figure it out, you'll have smileyfaces. 
More creative stuff is coming for the N-Net. But I think I'll take a language break for a couple of days.
