Maxaud

Very nice, I like the drop-down menu.
Will this be a publicly available theme?

I’d like to know more about the drop-down menu if you could. Is there much Javascript involved?

Looks good and to the point.
I would think that a verticle column type background to seperate one side from the other would be good.
Just an idea.

ok,
I know that I’ve left a lot of comments so far but would this work in your case?:

<?php
 $categoryvariable=$cat; // assign the variable as current category
 $query= 'cat=' . $categoryvariable. '&orderby=date&order=ASC'; // concatenate the query
 query_posts($query); // run the query
 ?>

IS there a new tag that replaced <?php the_category_ID(echo); ?> similiar to <?php the_ID(); ?> that could be used to add the number to &category=# ??

I don’t know what to tell you.
Sorry 🙁

Those are the only two files that I edited and it works fine on my site.
Maybe it’s a server issue?

Where is your site hosted through?

ok, edit the sidebar-extra.php file to say this:

<div id="extracontent">
<div id="about" class="box">
    <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/profile.jpg" alt="" class="photo" />
        <h3>About</h3>
        <?php the_author_description(); ?>

</div>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
        || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

<div id="recent" class="box">
        <h3>Recent Posts</h3>
        <ul class="link-list">
        <?php
$lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=15');
foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
        </ul>
    </div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

and then make a file called functions.php that says this:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<div id="recent" class="box">',
        'after_widget' => '</div></div>',
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3><div id="rightbar">',
    ));
?>

That should work.
Let me know how that goes.

what portions of the theme do you want “widget ready”?