I haven’t been paying much attention to WordPress lately, (or really much of anything online, it’s all been about “Wow! A new vacuum cleaner!” and “Why won’t that cat stop peeing on the carpet?”) but this just caught my eye and it looks like a really cool competition.
The Sandbox theme is a semantic, xhtml based theme that generates classes based on content. The folks that designed it have sponsored a competition for designers to create their own themes based on Sandbox using only CSS and images. This is a bit like what Zen Theme is attempting to do for Drupal (make themeing possible using CSS only) but it still needs the bugs worked out (which I might help do except I’m cleaning up cat pee).
I really don’t think that I will have time to participate, but as much as I love the current theme for Pixel Surfers, I have been wanting to create my own theme for some time. I will definitely be using Sandbox when I do so!
The Zen Theme was at least partially inspired by the Sandbox, which came out soon afterwards (Sandbox in Aug ’06, Zen in Oct 06), although I must confess the idea of using functions to generate semantic classes in key locations wasn’t something I can take credit for.
Lovely site, by the way. Too bad you’re not ‘playing inn the Sandbox.’
Oh, believe me, if there is any way that I can find some time to do so, I will. Thanks for the comment!