Alister Cameron, designer, developer, and Sandbox Designs Competition judge, gave a presentation at WordCamp in Melbourne, Australia, on blog design and the Sandbox. Which is excellent.
I standardize some special classes across my themes. Classes used for aligning images (or other elements) or styling text (think all caps). And then there are the classes to indicate XFN relationships. Maybe we can make our lives better.
We begin a dialogue about the development of the Sandbox theme, which has become quite a useful resource for theme developers. What about Sandbox skins? The #globalnav option? How can we improve semantics and simplify the theme? This isn’t about squashing bugs. This is about making something good even better.
Andy and I continue developing the Minimalist Sandbox in to something completely different: a powerful, game-changing theme. The addition of enhanced semantic class-generating functions means the way you write and read markup will change.
After the release of the Minimalist Sandbox, an interesting idea arises: replacing the conventional .narrowcolumn and .widecolumn classes with semantic ones. How? Adding dynamic functions to the theme files that add classes specific to the page being viewed.