Chameleon - Release Date

So the release date is:

22 Novemeber 2004

So yesterday was a very significant day in the development of Chameleon. We more or less finished it. Rootie put the xhtml tag to check the validation and it came back with ONLY 7 errors the first time out the door. This for me was a massive achievement, as it’s something that was without a doubt 100% Rootie’s doing. If it was down to me we’d be enjoying the coding mess that is brokenkode with it’s 141 errors. Within like 10 minutes that was down to like 1 and now I can say that both the CSS and XHTML validates 100%.

That is a very important milestone to be honest, as Root’s kept to his end of the bargain and provided a rock solid foundation. Sure there’s going to be tweaks but it’s pretty encouraging going into the tweaking stage knowing you comply with web standards.

The thing is now the pressure is on me to make sure the design and the colours are actually working nearly as well as the code itself. This’ll be a busy weekend for graphics and design in casa brokenkode as I go a bit mental with the design. It’s going to be good fun. So when is Chameleon going to be released officially? I’m a natural born optomist and I’d like to say next week, however I’ve been giving this a lot of thought and I’d rather go live when all the ideas we’ve got are completed and will only be revised slightly in the future. That means that ideally next week, however realistically it won’t go live till the week after that. For everyone scratching their heads asking ‘if you’ve completed the design what’s the problem?’ Once you finally get the end result I think you’ll understand why it’ll take another 2 weeks before we release it. I don’t want to say too much right now, but needless to say it’s something unique that I haven’t seen in any templates I’ve downloaded.