A few people have guessed what Chameleon is, so for all those in the dark about a month ago I contacted Rootie over at atthe404 asking him if he would like to join me on this idea I had for a wordpress template that would be slotted in no fuss no huss when Version 1.3 came out. For those scratching their heads asking ‘What the hell is wordpress?’ it’s the system that runs this site. What you think it’s all done by magic? Anyway, we’ve been working on this thing for 2 weeks solid. It’s been arguably one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had on the net. The idea was to have both design and code come together as one. I would worry about how it would look like, and why; while Root concentrated on making sure the code was lean and mean and to the point, and ultimately wasn’t broken.

It was a bit jarring at first working with someone where the only method we’ve decided to communicate with each other was through the development site we set up, however those issues got ironed out very fast. That way we’ve got a complete account of absolutely everything we ever had a problem with. I think when I chose to contact Root (yeah I know his name, but to everyone else he shall remain as the entity known as Root :) ) I couldn’t have imagined how amazing the collaboration actually would be. For a start I’ve got to say I’m a complete obsessive perfectionist. I have to have it perfect to the pixel so that I can be content, and I don’t mind spending the time to get it there. Root matched me hour for hour, and probably a lot more in trying to get this sorted out. The man just doesn’t get tired…ever.

So what does it look like? Hmm I don’t want to give it away just yet but what I will be doing is actually running the default on my site for about 2 weeks after it goes live, and then I’ll be skinning it for brokenkode appropriately. We’re going to be releasing it under a GPL license, and that’s always been the case.

There are going to be several features that distinguish it and hopefully people will get a kick out of it once we’ve released it officially.

I guess it’s a new chapter for the site as we go into Version 2.0.