Done with the header, top nav, and left nav along with the home page, and whoops,. found that I had an Internal Server Error,.
It was related to the .htaccess file provided by magento 1.8.0.0 in which they disable track and trace, however the method by which they rewrite isn’t working so I replaced them with
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* – [F]
from…. http://perishablepress.com/disable-trace-and-track-for-better-security/
So, track and trace are disabled.
What else, included jQuery no conflict style, added a custom leftnav block that is included on every 2 column left page.
Need to add products and I can continue to build.