Moving Along: Sandbox 0.6.1
Hear ye, hear ye: Sandbox v0.6.1 is hot off the presses. No, out of the oven. Something. You get the idea.
Now, be glad, ye downloaders, since Sandbox v0.6 is out for download before it’s available on WordPress.com blogs. So, for a short while, there will be some discrepancy between the two. Andy is planning on getting the Sandbox over there updated soon, but, well, he had matters to attend to and I finished my laundry sooner than I thought.
Sadly, I’m not going to go into the changes right now. There’s a post coming in a matter of hours about some of the things that make the Sandbox so great (in my opinion). For a short list of changes, please read the Sandbox change log.
Some of you have gotten your wishes. Namely <div>’s around your favorite <abbr>’s. And there are some other structural changes—though no massive changes.
Yes, the SVN will go public after a while. Not tonight, probably not tomorrow, so thanks for hanging in. Andy’s going to take care of that. Tonight or tomorrow I’m going to go in to some detail about the Sandbox. Right now, though, I have clothes to fold.
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Shawna wrote:
Honestly I haven’t commented on this theme yet because I just don’t understnd it.It looks like an accident.Am I missing something?
*Hi Scott, long time no type*
:)
Posted 13 Aug 2006 at 6:17 am ¶
Scott wrote:
Hi Shawna: Yep, it has been a while. Let me assure you that the Sandbox is no accident. Or rather, the accidents are things we have not found yet.
One purpose of the Sandbox is to give people who are interested in developing their own theme a great place to begin. Instead of developing a structure for a theme, you can use the Sandbox and “skin” it.
Because it has classes all over the place, and because those classes are dynamic and relative to what is being displayed, you can use CSS to do lots of neat things.
It isn’t complicated, really, but it also is not like any of theme. At its heart, though, it’s still a regular WordPress theme. Just one that is terribly useful.
Posted 13 Aug 2006 at 10:53 am ¶
Shawna wrote:
Ahhh, I understand now.This is mostly for theme developers… something for them to build upon.Cool idea.Wish I had design skills as I love the various layouts of this theme
Posted 14 Aug 2006 at 4:22 am ¶
Scott wrote:
The things is, Shawna, if you can learn and apply even the basics of CSS, you can skin the Sandbox. Then, as your CSS skills improve, you can do all sorts of things.
It’s basically removing the need to become familiar with PHP and to some extent XHTML, and just work with CSS.
It’s for anyone who wants to create their own theme (or “skin” as it is for the Sandbox).
Posted 14 Aug 2006 at 9:16 am ¶
Saracen wrote:
An idea: could we not somehow add the page slug as a body class so that one can hide specific sidebar elements (or the whole sidebar) on specific pages? It seems a little difficult to pull off given that the only the “page” class is added and the only unique class is lower down the hierarchy.
Posted 21 Dec 2006 at 2:07 pm ¶
lolly wrote:
You make it sound so easy! Here I thought I was pretty good at css (after all, I managed to turn this: http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/3-columns/66/tiga-06/ into what is my site now).
But there are sooo many selectors (is that even the right term?) in this theme that I don’t even know where to begin.
How do I add a header image?
How do I make the width not take up the whole page? The things I would normally try don’t work here.
Of course, I’ve never actually sat down and “learned” CSS. I’ve just manipulated themes a bunch and I thought I kind of knew what I was doing.
Any chance there’s a tutorial/guide coming for editing some of the basics in this theme?
Posted 28 Dec 2006 at 11:12 pm ¶
lolly wrote:
Maybe I should ask: I’m trying to use this theme to make my site look mostly like it does now, but without all the little problems (like the right sidebar not positioned correctly in IE, among other things.)
Is this even possible?
Posted 28 Dec 2006 at 11:19 pm ¶
Scott wrote:
Hi lolly,
Yes, it is very possible, but it’s going to require you learning if only the basics of CSS and adapting the styles of your current theme to the Sandbox.
I wish I could offer a simple solution, but I’d start with the theme’s current style.css file—as well as starting to read up a little on CSS.
Posted 28 Dec 2006 at 11:28 pm ¶
KC wrote:
I’ve tried hard to analyze the css for the one sidebar on the right side, but I can’t see where the width of the two columns is set. I want the test to be thinner and the sidebar to be wider.
Which file has the function that holds the key to setting the widths?
Posted 08 Jan 2007 at 7:23 pm ¶
Scott wrote:
The widths for the sidebars are set in the corresponding
/skins/subfolder.Posted 09 Jan 2007 at 9:46 am ¶
jazzle wrote:
I think sandbox is great, and have made my own skin based on the three column minimalist (centred) one, have a look!
Posted 18 Feb 2007 at 8:15 am ¶