diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index 4ba1e5e..753343d 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ site:
   feed: 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/BioinformaticsZen'
   rights: "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported"
   navigation:
-    twitter: 'http://twitter.com/michaelbarton'
     about: 'http://www.michaelbarton.me.uk'
     email: 'mailto:mail@bioinformaticszen.com'
     youtube: 'http://www.youtube.com/user/bioinformaticszen'
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@ author:
   uri: "http://www.michaelbarton.me.uk"
   name: "Michael Barton"
   email: "mail@michaelbarton.me.uk"
+  twitter: "http://twitter.com/michaelbarton"
 scripts:
   - "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"
   - "/fancybox/javascript.js"
diff --git a/content/stylesheets/stylesheet.scss b/content/stylesheets/stylesheet.scss
index a6bb8fa..55e3ca9 100644
--- a/content/stylesheets/stylesheet.scss
+++ b/content/stylesheets/stylesheet.scss
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ body {
 }
 
 #sidebar {
-  width: 200px; }
+  width: 210px; }
 
 .widget {
   h3 {
diff --git a/layouts/_footer.haml b/layouts/_footer.haml
index ada387e..aeac5cc 100644
--- a/layouts/_footer.haml
+++ b/layouts/_footer.haml
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 %p
   = "Keep up to date with my thoughts on bioinformatics by"
   %b
-    %a{:href => @site.config[:site][:navigation][:twitter] }
+    %a{:href => @site.config[:author][:twitter] }
       = "following me on twitter."
diff --git a/layouts/_navigation.haml b/layouts/_navigation.haml
deleted file mode 100644
index 53d82b2..0000000
--- a/layouts/_navigation.haml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-- if @site.config[:site][:navigation]
-  #sidebar
-    .widget
-      %h3 links
-      %ul
-        - @site.config[:site][:navigation].each do |name,href|
-          %li
-            %a{:href => href}
-              = name
diff --git a/layouts/_sidebar.haml b/layouts/_sidebar.haml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4067558
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/_sidebar.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+- if @site.config[:site][:navigation]
+  #sidebar
+    .widget
+      %h3 about
+      %p
+        = "I'm Michael Barton, a post-doctoral researcher in bioinformatics. I enjoy writing about data analysis and simple approaches to computational biology."
+      %p
+        = "Follow me on twitter as"
+        %b
+          %a{:href => @site.config[:author][:twitter] }
+            = "@michaelbarton."
+    .widget
+      %h3 links
+      %ul
+        - @site.config[:site][:navigation].each do |name,href|
+          %li
+            %a{:href => href}
+              = name
diff --git a/layouts/default.haml b/layouts/default.haml
index 58b258c..e349db3 100644
--- a/layouts/default.haml
+++ b/layouts/default.haml
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@
               = comments(@item)
           - else
             = render "_front"
-      = render "_navigation"
+      = render "_sidebar"
     = google_analytics @site.config[:site][:analytics_token]