More wp theme progress

So I added the featured image widget box to the post page by following the instructions on here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails

I changed the post loop of the first-letter.php since my last post to this: http://pastebin.com/T4Jb0VB5 With this change the posts will be split into two separate unordered lists (col1, col2).  I found that you can get the amount of posts after a query by using the code from this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-query_posts

The rest of today I spent styling the theme.  I managed to get the structure nice and neat and started going into the details of things.  Here's what I'm ending with today:

As you can see it's actually looking somewhat like the original design now.  Tomorrow is definitely the day I finish for sure (idk if it's Friday).