@Casey - Well hey, I knew their had to be methods to your madness :). It's nice hearing from you as your perspective as the developer to know why things are the way they are. Seems to make a little more sense to me now.

I hate diving into framework files to make a simple change which themes like Evenflow make easy because the theme is made up of individual template files. I know where to go and generally know what to edit. But I've been spoiled by the one click saves the change across the entire theme approach that frameworks/child themes have. I have to hand it to you though, you made it very easy for someone to tinker around with the PHP as it's commented very well.

You definitely have some design skill and I can see the Joomla influences in Evenflow and Avalon which is what I like. I've got my eye on you for future themes.