I designed my own Ghost theme *from scratch* (with help)

It's been about two years since I exported my blog from a hosted Wordpress install to Ghost Pro and one aspect that never quite sat well with me was the lack of great template designs. Back around 2010, I gave up on creating all my own templates from scratch in photoshop and HTML, because back then CSS and mobile-friendly frameworks became so good that you suddenly had dozens of great, flexible designs you could build off of.I suspect Ghost's template language is a little finicky and their build/deploy process is unusual, so it probably keeps most designers away. The default free templates from Ghost are good but it's pretty hard to locate more indie developed designs. I've searched all over for the past two years and I've even paid up to $100 for each Ghost templates I liked, but once deployed on my own writing, I'd find bug after bug (most theme designer are good about fixing them though) and I'd want tweaks that usually only suited my needs.The beginningsI started with some mockups…