diff --git a/src/App.svelte b/src/App.svelte
index 3ca9778..a8a0033 100644
--- a/src/App.svelte
+++ b/src/App.svelte
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@
 </script>
 
 <main>
-  <h1>Welcome to the Feed</h1>
+  <div id="Content">
   {#await accountsPromise}
     <p>Loading...</p>
   {:then accountsData}
     <div id="Account">
+      <h1 id="Header">ATProto PDS</h1>
+      <p>Home to {accountsData.length} accounts</p>
       {#each accountsData as accountObject}
         <AccountComponent account={accountObject} />
       {/each}
@@ -29,7 +31,39 @@
       {/each}
     </div>
   {/await}
+  </div>
 </main>
 
 <style>
+  #Content {
+    display: flex;
+    /* split the screen in half, left for accounts, right for posts */
+    width: 100%;
+    height: 100%;
+    flex-direction: row;
+    justify-content: space-between;
+    align-items: center;
+    background-color: #12082b;
+    color: #ffffff;
+  }
+  #Feed {
+    width: 65%;
+    height: 80vh;
+    overflow-y: scroll;
+    padding: 20px;
+  }
+  #Account {
+    width: 35%;
+    height: 80vh;
+    overflow-y: scroll;
+    padding: 20px;
+    background-color: #070311;
+
+    border-radius: 10px;
+  }
+  #Header {
+    text-align: center;
+    font-size: 2em;
+    margin-bottom: 20px;
+  }
 </style>
diff --git a/src/app.css b/src/app.css
index 61ba367..2232051 100644
--- a/src/app.css
+++ b/src/app.css
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
-:root {
-  font-family: system-ui, Avenir, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
-  line-height: 1.5;
-  font-weight: 400;
+@font-face {
+  font-family: 'ProggyClean';
+  src: url(https://witchcraft.systems/ProggyCleanNerdFont-Regular.ttf);
+}
 
-  color-scheme: light dark;
-  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.87);
-  background-color: #242424;
+::-webkit-scrollbar {
+  width: 0px;
+  background: transparent;
+}
 
-  font-synthesis: none;
-  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
-  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
+* {
+  scrollbar-width: thin;
+  scrollbar-color: transparent transparent;
+  -ms-overflow-style: none; /* IE and Edge */
+  -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
+  -webkit-scrollbar: none; /* Safari */
 }
 
 a {
@@ -28,6 +31,11 @@ body {
   place-items: center;
   min-width: 320px;
   min-height: 100vh;
+  background-color: #12082b;
+  font-family: 'ProggyClean', monospace;
+  font-size: 24px;
+  color: white;
+  border-color: #8054f0;
 }
 
 h1 {
@@ -35,45 +43,11 @@ h1 {
   line-height: 1.1;
 }
 
-.card {
-  padding: 2em;
-}
-
 #app {
-  max-width: 1280px;
+  max-width: 1400px;
   margin: 0 auto;
   padding: 2rem;
   text-align: center;
 }
 
-button {
-  border-radius: 8px;
-  border: 1px solid transparent;
-  padding: 0.6em 1.2em;
-  font-size: 1em;
-  font-weight: 500;
-  font-family: inherit;
-  background-color: #1a1a1a;
-  cursor: pointer;
-  transition: border-color 0.25s;
-}
-button:hover {
-  border-color: #646cff;
-}
-button:focus,
-button:focus-visible {
-  outline: 4px auto -webkit-focus-ring-color;
-}
 
-@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
-  :root {
-    color: #213547;
-    background-color: #ffffff;
-  }
-  a:hover {
-    color: #747bff;
-  }
-  button {
-    background-color: #f9f9f9;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/lib/AccountComponent.svelte b/src/lib/AccountComponent.svelte
index 2ad7662..cee7fc7 100644
--- a/src/lib/AccountComponent.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/AccountComponent.svelte
@@ -1,23 +1,39 @@
 <script lang="ts">
     import type { AccountMetadata } from "./pdsfetch";
     const { account }: { account: AccountMetadata } = $props();
+    import { Config } from "../../config";
 </script>
 <div id="accountContainer">
         {#if account.avatarCid}
             <img
                 id="avatar"
                 alt="avatar of {account.displayName}"
-                src="https://pds.witchcraft.systems/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did={account.did}&cid={account.avatarCid}"
+                src="{Config.PDS_URL}/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did={account.did}&cid={account.avatarCid}"
             />
         {/if}
-        <p>{account.displayName}</p>
+        <div id="accountName">{account.displayName || account.did}</div>
 </div>
 <style>
     #accountContainer {
-        display: column;
+        display: flex;
         text-align: start;
-        border: 2px solid black;
+        align-items: center;
+        background-color: #0d0620;
         padding: 4%;
+        margin: 10px;
+
+        /* round corners */
+        border-radius: 10px;
+    }
+    #accountName {
+        margin-left: 10px;
+        font-size: 0.9em;
+        
+        /* replace overflow with ellipsis */
+        overflow: hidden;
+        text-overflow: ellipsis;
+        white-space: nowrap;
+        max-width: 80%;
     }
     #avatar {
         width: 50px;
diff --git a/src/lib/PostComponent.svelte b/src/lib/PostComponent.svelte
index 6c1fd92..bdbd72e 100644
--- a/src/lib/PostComponent.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/PostComponent.svelte
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
         alt="avatar of {post.displayName}"
       />
     {/if}
-    <p>{post.displayName} | {post.timenotstamp}</p>
+    <div id="headerText">{post.displayName} | {post.timenotstamp}</div>
   </div>
   <div id="postContent">
-    <p>{post.text}</p>
     {#if post.replyingDid}
-      <p>Replying to: {post.replyingDid}</p>
-    {/if}
+    <p id="replyingText">replying to: {post.replyingDid}</p>
+  {/if}
+    <p id="postText">{post.text}</p>
     {#if post.imagesCid}
       <div id="imagesContainer">
         {#each post.imagesCid as imageLink}
@@ -42,21 +42,62 @@
 
 <style>
   #postContainer {
-    display: column;
-    text-align: start;
-    border: 2px solid black;
-    padding: 4%;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    border: 1px solid #8054f0;
+    background-color: black;
+    margin-bottom: -1px;
   }
   #postHeader {
-    text-decoration: underline;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: row;
+    align-items: center;
+    justify-content: start;
+    background-color: #1f1145;
+    padding: 0px 0px;
+    height: fit-content;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid #8054f0;
+    font-weight: bold;
+  }
+  #postContent {
+    display: flex;
+    text-align: start;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    padding: 10px;
+    background-color: #0d0620;
+    color: white;
+  }
+  #replyingText {
+    font-size: 0.7em;
+    color: white;
+    margin: 0;
+    margin-bottom: 10px;
+    padding: 0;
+  }
+  #postText {
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+  }
+  #headerText {
+    margin-left: 10px;
+    font-size: 0.9em;
+    text-align: start;
   }
   #avatar {
     width: 50px;
     height: 50px;
-    border-radius: 50%;
+    margin: 0px;
+    margin-left: 0px;
+    border-right: #8054f0 1px solid;
   }
   #embedImages {
     width: 50%;
     height: 50%;
+    margin-top: 0px;
+    margin-bottom: -5px;
+  }
+  #embedVideo {
+    width: 50%;
+    height: 50%;
   }
 </style>
diff --git a/src/lib/pdsfetch.ts b/src/lib/pdsfetch.ts
index 885fcc5..748fee6 100644
--- a/src/lib/pdsfetch.ts
+++ b/src/lib/pdsfetch.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import type {
   AppBskyFeedPost,
   ComAtprotoRepoListRecords,
 } from "@atcute/client/lexicons";
+import { Config } from "../../config";
 // import { ComAtprotoRepoListRecords.Record } from "@atcute/client/lexicons";
 // import { AppBskyFeedPost } from "@atcute/client/lexicons";
 // import { AppBskyActorDefs } from "@atcute/client/lexicons";
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ const didFromATuri = (aturi: string) => {
 
 const rpc = new XRPC({
   handler: simpleFetchHandler({
-    service: "https://pds.witchcraft.systems",
+    service: Config.PDS_URL,
   }),
 });
 
@@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ const getDidsFromPDS = async () => {
 };
 const getAccountMetadata = async (did: `did:${string}:${string}`) => {
   // gonna assume self exists in the app.bsky.actor.profile
+  try {
   const { data } = await rpc.get("com.atproto.repo.getRecord", {
     params: {
       repo: did,
@@ -116,6 +118,15 @@ const getAccountMetadata = async (did: `did:${string}:${string}`) => {
     account.avatarCid = value.avatar.ref["$link"];
   }
   return account;
+  }
+  catch (e) {
+    console.error(`Error fetching metadata for ${did}:`, e);
+    return {
+      did: "error",
+      displayName: "",
+      avatarCid: null,
+    };
+  }
 };
 
 const getAllMetadataFromPds = async () => {
@@ -125,21 +136,31 @@ const getAllMetadataFromPds = async () => {
       return await getAccountMetadata(repo);
     }),
   );
-  return metadata;
+  return metadata.filter(account => account.did !== "error");
 };
 
 const fetchPosts = async (did: string) => {
-  const { data } = await rpc.get("com.atproto.repo.listRecords", {
-    params: {
-      repo: did,
-      collection: "app.bsky.feed.post",
-      limit: 5,
-    },
-  });
-  return {
-    records: data.records as ComAtprotoRepoListRecords.Record[],
-    did: did,
-  };
+  try {
+    const { data } = await rpc.get("com.atproto.repo.listRecords", {
+      params: {
+        repo: did,
+        collection: "app.bsky.feed.post",
+        limit: 5,
+      },
+    });
+    return {
+      records: data.records as ComAtprotoRepoListRecords.Record[],
+      did: did,
+      error: false
+    };
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(`Error fetching posts for ${did}:`, e);
+    return {
+      records: [],
+      did: did,
+      error: true
+    };
+  }
 };
 
 const fetchAllPosts = async () => {
@@ -149,7 +170,8 @@ const fetchAllPosts = async () => {
       await fetchPosts(metadata.did)
     ),
   );
-  const posts: Post[] = postRecords.flatMap((userFetch) =>
+  const validPostRecords = postRecords.filter(record => !record.error);
+  const posts: Post[] = validPostRecords.flatMap((userFetch) =>
     userFetch.records.map((record) => {
       const user = users.find((user: AccountMetadata) =>
         user.did == userFetch.did