I finally reached a point in developing my own theme where I felt I could go ahead and put it to use. There’s still bunches of work that needs to be done. The most glaring is the lack of any sort of navigation or menu. I don’t, however, think it’s an absolute necessity at the moment. Ultimately I’d like it to be along the bottom of the header, and contain dropdown menus for browsing old posts by date and by “category”. Sooner or later it’ll happen. Along with everything else that needs to be done. But hey, you can read this can’t you?! Shouldn’t that be enough?!
Despite the quality (or lack thereof), it is a much better feeling knowing that it’s all mine, and not some twiddled version of somebody else’s work. There is the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction at having created something of your own that you just can’t get by dropping in a theme yanked from the internets.
So look for revisions and updates and new items to the right from time to time. Before you know it, we’ll be at version 1.0!