Quality Code vs Code

If you are using this theme for personal use, then the question you need to ask yourself is "does it work"? If it looks exactly how you want it to, then it's probably good enough. I'm sure there are probably area's were you could tighten you code up, but that's normal. Programming is a lot like writing, after you've done you first draft, you go back and make change so that the end result is better. If you want to know about ways to make you css more D.R.Y, then check out OOCSS and SMACSS. These are just ways to organize your css so that it is lightweight and easy to maintain.

As far as programs or groups that will review your code to see how optimized your code is, there are some website that will do it for you (just google css optimization). However, you should know that they can have unexpected results sometimes. If you would like someone to do a peer review of you code just post a link to your website and I'm sure myself or someone else could take a quick look at it.

p.s I'm a Drupal developer, and while I might not be a lot of help with WP specific stuff, I can help with optimizing your css. Feel free to email me at shookandrew@yahoo.com

Tyler, I'll be happy to review your WP code if you'd like. You can zip up the whole theme and email it to me at homosaur@gmail.com or just hit me up on Twitter @paulgraham if you want to do a Dropbox share or something. I have years of WP experience and have developed many successful themes and screwed up many times that so I can help you out with some of these issues.

There's a great video on Treehouse that covers some of the stuff Andrew is talking about re CSS. CSS seems simple but it's actually quite difficult to manage a complex site and requires experience. The fault may be with your CSS or it may be with your HTML structure.

I understand how you are feeling Tyler. There is like 65 CSS videos (more than Ruby videos) and just wait until they add the Saas and Compass videos. It's useful for me to look at shipped code to see learn best practices. Be it looking at a woo themes wp theme, thisisresponsive.com, admiring the organized Saas of zurb.foundation.com. Poke around popular github repos or just chrome web inspect cool sites.

Its not going to make you feel less crappy about your code (only experience writing will do that) but It might help. It's a good habit anyway.

At least these days we have tools like Treehouse, Sublime Text, Sass, Git, StackExchange, Chrome Dev Tools etc. to make developing easier than it was before.

Keep coding, watching and applying and one day your confidence will click in place.