Comments on: Sandbox goes live, gets minimal http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/ Minimalism in blog design, an experiment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephanie Booth http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 Stephanie Booth Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:08:08 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1281 Whee! I'd heard about Sandbox, of course, being on WP.com, but I hadn't realised it used hAtom! I've been wanting to hAtomise my site for a while now, and I found this information while googling for a hypothetical hAtom plugin. Of course, hAtom has to do with themes, not plugins. Whee! I’d heard about Sandbox, of course, being on WP.com, but I hadn’t realised it used hAtom! I’ve been wanting to hAtomise my site for a while now, and I found this information while googling for a hypothetical hAtom plugin. Of course, hAtom has to do with themes, not plugins.

]]> By: Subscribe Without Feeds at Like It Matters http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1280 Subscribe Without Feeds at Like It Matters Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:38:16 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1280 […] FactoryJoe teases out an announcement at Wordcamp I’d overlooked: So but that’s not all… no, Andy Skelton announced (from what I hear) the availability of a new skeleton theme called Sandbox that is designed for themers. If you’re on WordPress.com you can go enable it now, as I have (it’s totally basic, so I imagine that you’ll see a lot of styles start to appear for it) or download it to put on your own blog.I’ll actually be doing this once I return to San Francisco. […] […] FactoryJoe teases out an announcement at Wordcamp I’d overlooked: So but that’s not all… no, Andy Skelton announced (from what I hear) the availability of a new skeleton theme called Sandbox that is designed for themers. If you’re on WordPress.com you can go enable it now, as I have (it’s totally basic, so I imagine that you’ll see a lot of styles start to appear for it) or download it to put on your own blog.I’ll actually be doing this once I return to San Francisco. […]

]]> By: WordPress makes a move towards hAtom, gets upgrades at FactoryCity http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1279 WordPress makes a move towards hAtom, gets upgrades at FactoryCity Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:24:02 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1279 [...] So but that’s not all… no, Andy Skelton announced (from what I hear) the availability of a new skeleton theme called Sandbox that is designed for themers. If you’re on WordPress.com you can go enable it now, as I have (it’s totally basic, so I imagine that you’ll see a lot of styles start to appear for it) or download it to put on your own blog. [...] [...] So but that’s not all… no, Andy Skelton announced (from what I hear) the availability of a new skeleton theme called Sandbox that is designed for themers. If you’re on WordPress.com you can go enable it now, as I have (it’s totally basic, so I imagine that you’ll see a lot of styles start to appear for it) or download it to put on your own blog. [...]

]]> By: Bill Humphries http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1278 Bill Humphries Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:37:58 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1278 I was working on a theme with hAtom support and you delivered something with so much more! Excellent work, and I look forward to trying it on my server. I was working on a theme with hAtom support and you delivered something with so much more! Excellent work, and I look forward to trying it on my server.

]]> By: Ja http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1277 Ja Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:08:25 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1277 Wow! I'm so psyched Scott! This is giong to be great. Oddly enough, a while back I was sharing a jotspot space with a couple friends where we listed and brainstormed ideas. Amongst my pile full of notes about things I wanted to do if I ever had the time, I wrote: <blockquote>Skin My Site! theme to go with theme switcher and let people use Firefox Plugin Stylish and userstyles.org to make and use "skins" for any site that supports the theme/standard </blockquote> This isn't exactly the same, but it's as close as I'll ever see and I didn't even have to do anything. ;) If this could pick up some of the skinning community it (kickstart it on deviant art ;) ) it could really bring a whole new audience to the mix in addition to the benefits you mentioned. So do you see the creation of a repository of css snippets to use for different elements? I have a feeling this is going to be a lot of fun. You may want to take a look at Nybble's plugin, <a href="http://nybblelabs.org.uk/projects/sidebar-modules/" rel="nofollow">Side Bar Modules</a> which I managed to convince him during development to include an option for per-module css styling (allowing differnt styled modules to be swapped in and out or used on different pages. I don't know how you've scripted Sandbox but I thought you may be interested in seeing if there are any semantic possibilities with that for the future. Eagerly waiting your release and hope to see you on the 19th! Ja Wow! I’m so psyched Scott! This is giong to be great. Oddly enough, a while back I was sharing a jotspot space with a couple friends where we listed and brainstormed ideas. Amongst my pile full of notes about things I wanted to do if I ever had the time, I wrote:

Skin My Site! theme to go with theme switcher and let people use Firefox Plugin Stylish and userstyles.org to make and use “skins” for any site that supports the theme/standard

This isn’t exactly the same, but it’s as close as I’ll ever see and I didn’t even have to do anything. ;)

If this could pick up some of the skinning community it (kickstart it on deviant art ;) ) it could really bring a whole new audience to the mix in addition to the benefits you mentioned.

So do you see the creation of a repository of css snippets to use for different elements? I have a feeling this is going to be a lot of fun.

You may want to take a look at Nybble’s plugin, Side Bar Modules which I managed to convince him during development to include an option for per-module css styling (allowing differnt styled modules to be swapped in and out or used on different pages. I don’t know how you’ve scripted Sandbox but I thought you may be interested in seeing if there are any semantic possibilities with that for the future.

Eagerly waiting your release and hope to see you on the 19th!

Ja

]]> By: Scott http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1276 Scott Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:32:33 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1276 Ah, and you can always poke around see <a href="http://technorati.com/search/www.plaintxt.org%2Fthemes%2Fsandbox%2F" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">who's using the Sandbox</a> so far. Ah, and you can always poke around see who’s using the Sandbox so far.

]]> By: Scott http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1275 Scott Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:10:54 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1275 Thanks, all. I'm happy that it's up on WordPress.com. It'll be good to get some initial feedback. The Sandbox there will grow a little, too, but I'm really eager to get it ready for download. Soon, though, soon. Thanks, all. I’m happy that it’s up on WordPress.com. It’ll be good to get some initial feedback. The Sandbox there will grow a little, too, but I’m really eager to get it ready for download. Soon, though, soon.

]]> By: adam http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1274 adam Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:56:27 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1274 as soon as i saw andy getting involved, i thought this might be where things were headed. congrats, it's well deserved. as soon as i saw andy getting involved, i thought this might be where things were headed. congrats, it’s well deserved.

]]> By: sonia http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1273 sonia Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:41:26 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1273 excellent! excellent!

]]> By: Jimmy http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/the-sandbox-goes-live-gets-minimal/comment-page-1/#comment-1272 Jimmy Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:57:47 +0000 http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/04/the-sandbox-gets-minimal/#comment-1272 Congrats on getting in on the Wordpress.com list of themes Scott! Good stuff! Great idea with the skin functionality as well! Congrats on getting in on the Wordpress.com list of themes Scott! Good stuff! Great idea with the skin functionality as well!

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