This well-thought-out structure has attracted many web designers and developers to create themes for Sandbox which other can then use as a starting point for their own customizations to suit their individual needs. Using the dynamically generated classes, themes can even style the site differently each hour of the day! More experienced designers can even radically change the look and structure of a blog using CSS alone. At its core, Sandbox is a rich and semantic-yet simple-HTML structure with many unique CSS classes throughout in order to make it simple for non-designers to easily make small design adjustments to an existing Sandbox theme. Scott Wallick and Andy Skelton created Sandbox as a theme for WordPress and it has since been used as the base for many blogs over the last few years. And this concept and philosophy is also why we supported The Style Contest, which not only succeeded in producing over 150 new designs to style Movable Type’s default templates, but also in rewarding the awesome designers behind each of the winning designs.
Tools like the Movable Type Design Assistant have made it much simpler to customize the look of your Movable Type blog through CSS alone. Movable Type has always supported this concept. Sandbox is similar to the CSS Zen Garden in that it showcases the power of CSS-the ability to radically transform the look of a site without changing any of the underlying HTML. The Vanilla Template Set was another of my recent Hackathon projects.) (BTW, Hackathons-the ability to spend every Wednesday scratching our own itches-are one of the reasons why I love working at Six Apart. What began as a hackathon project of between Bryan Tighe and myself a little while ago has yielded some great results: today we’re releasing Sandbox for Movable Type as a plugin that allows the many Sandbox themes to be used on Movable Type blogs as well. Sandbox for Movable Type may just be what you’re looking for. Ever thought about radically changing the look of your blog without much design work? Are you a designer who likes to work in semantic HTML and do amazing things with CSS? Maybe you’re moving from WordPress to Movable Type and want to keep your current design.
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