Ten days left. No panicking allowed. .. YET. I’m back on time now. Provided I can fix and finish the templating mess up I made and get the site’s “looks” and design finished by the end of day. There’s way too much to still work on to have the design still unfinished – it makes it very hard to see the changes to the pages without having the templates completed. I have pulled up a collection of tutorials to help me fix what I screwed up… and even though I hate it, I’m willing to sit through them to attempt to find out how to fix it. So.. I’m wishing me luck.

Fast forward 12 hours.. and I have the templating fixed. All of it. Archive pages, single posts, single pages, overview pages.. EVERYTHING. and as a bonus, I got the forums templating and styling DONE – which was not technically on today’s list. My head is aching and I took some Aleve, but I’m done. There are a few random pages I haven’t finished, but they will use already existing templates, and they, quite frankly, were not on the list to do today.

Also of note: I am, once again, extending the time that I’ll be launching the site by a couple of days. Simply due to scheduling, the day that I had planned to launch is NOT a good day of the week to do it, as I have some dr. appointments or are on stream during the time I planned to launch. Whoops… So .. at 8 PM on November 4th, the site will officially open. The countdown on https://illusorythrall.com/ is up-to-date, and will track correctly for when the site goes live. I still have a LOT to do, so things are by no means complete… but the hard parts are mostly done. Which is a huge load off my shoulders. (This also means I have 13 days left, not the ten I had at the beginning of this post – so I can spread out the work a little bit and take some more pressure off, as well as scheduling in a couple of breaks – which is fantastic news for me.)