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Party like it’s 99% complete.

It’s pretty much done! Not too much left, I think I’ve nailed the navigation, thank heavens for Appearance > Menu; there are some CSS tweaks that I need to do for widgets still so I can take out some content from the sidebar theme file and have it managed by WordPress; I still don’t have a good gallery, and I’m scared to attach any images to a post because I don’t know how much it will break; but other than that… This is VACUBOMB; let me know what you think on twitter!

Tomorrow I’ll post some details on the P.S. New West site that I coded a couple weeks ago, including a letter from Mark Shieh with a bit of history behind the project.

What’s next? Magic.

I’d say it’s 91% complete.

It’s close! Here’s my unordered todo list:

attachments.php
footer.php – Tweak the footer to include some sort of page menu. Currently the only other page is Pictures (holds my twitter pics) so I’m not sure it’s worth it.
functions.php
CSS for widgets (currently none enabled)
I’m going to rewrite a huge chunk TweetPress (WP twitPic clone) to support galleries instead of the mess it creates now.

Pro-tip: This image has actually saved the lives of those who have coded a WP template.

I’ll be launching this weekend.

Transparency.

I have absolutely nothing to hide at this point… My live site at www.vacubomb.com is a half working mess.

I decided I would develop it live, without a dev site, so that I would have some drive to get it done. I’ll be sitting on my ass for the next 4 days hammering out the new template.

I started with TwentyTen (what a crazy complicated mess) and moved everything into a “2010″ sub-folder, except the style.css and index.php. I dropped in my HTML template that I’ve been building on and off for the past 2 months, and started copying and pasting. So far, I’ve got the following files moved back for editing…

footer.php
functions.php
header.php
home.php
index.php
loop-home.php
style.css

I still have 18 files to dick around with. ugh.

One thing you’ll notice is that there are no comments enabled; they are disabled on purpose, I’ll be carrying the conversation on twitter. This way you’ll be responsible for your comments.

PS. I haven’t changed my site in over 8 years! My previous design is dated 2002!