I've gotten the site to a decent visual and functional state -- pagination works, categories work, feeds work...it still feels like it's missing something, either a functional or navigational element. Maybe it doesn't feel right simply because I'm unaccustomed to a single-column blog.

Things to improve but that take more effort: XSL transforms for the feeds (giving explanations and subscription links to various services), contributing a patch back to Pelican to use .atom and .rss extensios for feeds (which will fix MIME type problems caused by using a generic .xml extension), better meta data on the pages, sitemap creation, and displaying old comments.