Designing Headaches For Newbies

Now that I do have some of the mood and inspiration to start working on the theme again, it seems that I'm defeated by a slight oversight. I have no idea what the new codes do in the new theme. It's hard enough positioning the theme to suit my liking. It's another to start programming it to work with what you want. So what's left is 2 hours of getting nowhere which is more than I can say for good progress.

Seeing that I'm going nowhere with the theme, here is a list of the things I'm left doing with the theme so that I can start guessing when I can finish and panicking when the deadline gets closer. It's not exactly a design trac, but you could probably think of it as one.

  1. Theme Selection
  2. Colour Contrast:
    • Title
    • Links
    • Entries
  3. Photoshop Graphics:
    • Header
    • Sidebar
    • Icons
    • Comment
  4. Sidebar:
    • Positioning
    • Width
    • Meta data
  5. Comment:
    • Positioning
    • Trackback Separation
    • Text area tweaks
  6. Custom Pages:
    • About
    • Archives
    • Contact
    • Links

I think there is some more, but those are the important bits that I can pull off from the top of my head. I can sweat the smaller miscellaneous stuff later.

I suppose I can finish off the rest of the things that I'm not stuck on, but it's hard to start doing something you're not in the mood for. I should probably drop by the WordPress IRC channel or the 9rules forums and ask about the headache of a problem. Nothing like people who know what they are doing to give you a heads up on what wall you're repeatedly running into blindly. I'll just have to wait for my eye to stop twitching first.

That's always a good idea.

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