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Announcing The Sandbox Designs Competition

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  1. Ian Stewart (4 comments.) says:

    Cool! I’m looking forward to seeing the entries. Maybe I could learn a thing or two.

  2. Small Potato (19 comments.) says:

    Two months sound too long.

  3. Scott (15 comments.) says:

    Check out Stewart’s blog above. It’s built on the Sandbox, and looks great. Thanks, Stewart.

  4. adam (39 comments.) says:

    too long? you could just make multiple entries. i think scott put up 4 last year :P

  5. Will (4 comments.) says:

    I am looking forward to this and would like to enter. Stewart your site does look great.

  6. Jenny (24 comments.) says:

    two months sounds fine. especially for people as new as me.

  7. Azmeen (14 comments.) says:

    I believe that this is a very unique and interesting competition for the WP community.

    Can’t wait to see how the competition develops :)

  8. Ian Stewart (4 comments.) says:

    Thanks for the punch in the arm, Scott and Will! If anyone is looking for some Sandbox inspiration you might want to check out Alister Cameron’s sandbox styling.

  9. Scott (15 comments.) says:

    @Ian: You needed a punch in the arm, looking forward to seeing the entries poppy-cock. Your aesthetic and mine are similar, I think. You’d do fine, I’m sure. ;-)

    And my-oh-my, just look at Alister’s blog. You know, there are so many Sandbox-based designs out there. I’d love to see a compilation.

  10. leksa (1 comments.) says:

    Well, actually i’m new in WP designing. My blog still in redesigning use Deazza based themes.
    In my experience in Web competition trough the internet, the basic tools we need to control the competition are Forum/Discussion Site, Promotion to get the WP blogger attention and most important the prize.
    I dont said prize in money as well. But i have trough NUcleus Blog Design Competition last year, and they shared prize about 300 dollar. Not much, but they can separate the honour in some categories (its like semantic, designing, imaging, tool, favourite etc..)

    Its just WP newbie idea,.. but i really appreciate for your effort. Weblogtoolscollection is one of my favourite WP resources tutorial since i met WP.

    JustNewbie’s2Cent ;)

  11. Andy Beard (25 comments.) says:

    I am fairly sure Alister’s is more than just a CSS tweak.

    I am glad you finally have a release version, I have been tinkering with versions from svn.

    Will people be allowed to have modifications to the php required or is this CSS only?

  12. Scott (15 comments.) says:

    Yes, Alister is using the Yahoo! GUI for griding, among other things. But it’s unmistakably Sandbox.

    All the details will be available tomorrow, Andy, but I want to emphasize again that this is a strictly design-oriented competition—not for challenging PHP know-how or scripting ability.

    Check out the WordPress CSS Styles competition from ’04. This was based on the Classic theme. Now we have far, far more CSS techniques and tools available. We have this extremely extensible markup to work with.

    I think by focusing this competition is going to produce better, tighter designs. And those dynamic classes in the Sandbox make almost anything possible—just with CSS.

  13. Anthony Cole (1 comments.) says:

    I’m really kind of interested in this. I just got out for summer, so I’m going to enter.

  14. Hans (6 comments.) says:

    Cool thing ahead :) Will you be participating?

    Perhaps there should be a forum or discussion group for the competition, so that those that don’t design, can suggest their ideas for the developers. Inspiring them in some way or another.

  15. Andreas (19 comments.) says:

    Great idea, but the prize money will probably not be much of a motivation for the professionals. I’d be happy to push those extra $500 in, but I would suggest that you put the target a bit higher and pay out prize money to more people than just the top three. If this is an official event (which it has to be if a title like that should be taken seriously), then it would be easy to find a $10k+ sponsor value to share between the best 10 designs. There are companies that pay $2.000 per month for “Sponsored links” in themes by well-known designers, so the interest is already there. Don’t create limitations that may hurt the purpose! Let me know if you need help…

  16. Scott (15 comments.) says:

    @Andreas: Actually, I couldn’t agree with you more. I want to avoid disappointing people after those two previous failed competitions. If we get more sponsorships and go over the US$1000 goal, that’s great. You’re very right is saying there shouldn’t be a limit. There won’t be. But there is a goal that I hope to at least meet. ;-)

    I’m a bit hesitant to make prize categories. If the prize money allows, I think making like five runner-up slots with cash prizes—again, which would be contingent on support. But I’m open to improving the reward schedule as things develop. :-D

  17. Alister Cameron // Blogologist (1 comments.) says:

    Friends,

    Mine is definitely Sandbox, but with some mods and changes. The big change is the complete replacement of sandbox CSS with my own, based on Yahoo’s base CSS classes (including their grid system).

    I continues to mess with Sandbox and have it to the stage where I plan to release my own “version” of Sandbox, under another name. This is NOT to cash in cheaply on the great work done by the Sandbox crew, but to “fork” my own version that is based on YUI, and has a range of other changes.

    I’ll post about that as soon as I can get the polish on it.

    But for now, is this of interest to people? I would be happy to offer it to Sandbox afficionados for use in this competition… it’s still fundamentally the Sandbox “goodness” we know and love :)

    -Alister

  18. Ian Stewart (4 comments.) says:

    It would be of interest to me. I’m currently tearing apart Sandbox on my test site, learning some PHP by trial and error, working my way up to a custom install of a WordPress magazine for someone (yes, I’m crazy). Seeing how someone else has modified Sandbox would be a big help.

    Like it says in the Sandbox code comments, “Remember: a Sandbox is for play.”

  19. Will (4 comments.) says:

    I agree with Ian. I would like to see the the modifications you have made in the core template files. I never realized how complicated the very simple looking Sandbox theme was until getting my hands dirty with it.

  20. Scott (15 comments.) says:

    You can also check out Adam’s themes, which are Sandbox mods.

    Also, you guys should feel free to visit the Sandbox Forums, which opened just after the competition did.

  21. adam (39 comments.) says:

    errr…. those themes don’t modify the sandbox at all, they’re purely CSS.

    dream in infrared is a mod of sandbox circa v0.7

  22. catchkin (1 comments.) says:

    Good !



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