As you might have noticed, there is a new theme to the blog. Normally when I change the site around I just say “Please excuse the mess” and make changes. I never talk much about what exactly I’m doing to the site (except that one time I went in to detail about switching to WordPress from Coranto).
However, I really want to throw some credit out this time because this new theme is just all kinds of cool.
The base theme for WordPress is called The Sandbox. Its a theme built specifically to support templates. You might be thinking “But isn’t that just what WordPress does?” and in a way you are sort of correct. However, while WordPress just provides functions that you can plug in to your themes, the Sandbox theme is a skeleton design for all those functions that can then be inherited and manipulated by the “skins” of the Sandbox. This is really where the Sandbox shines. Now I’ve got one theme that handles the nitty gritty page code, and then I have about a dozen different skins that supply new images and a CSS file, along with any other enhancements. If your webspace has size or file limits, file reusability is important.
So, now to the usual… things may change around a bit now and then here, so bear with me… Please excuse the mess. 🙂
I poked at sandbox and it’s very (very) cool. However, I suffer from “urge to tinker larger than schedule allows” syndrome and had to scale back my baseline for the next theme roll out at MBB and PJ’s Attic.
But I’m absolutely going to take some lessons from it for a project I’m working on.
I also finally got around to setting up the rotating header images I’ve wanted for a long time. Now I just need to make more custom header images.