Austin Web Designer - Adam Freetly

11 Comments

1. 

   summae
   Posted 14 Aug 2006 at 11:44 |
   

   Hi,
   The download link appears Dead.

2. 

   adam
   Posted 14 Aug 2006 at 11:51 |
   

   der, sorry about that.
   apparently the rich text editor doesn’t like me.

   fixed now!

3. 

   summae
   Posted 14 Aug 2006 at 3:11 |
   

   Thank you for the prompt response. I can’t wait to test your theme out now, it seems very good so far.

4. 

   GAiL
   Posted 15 Aug 2006 at 2:45 |
   

   adam… was it difficult making a skin for sandbox? i’ve been thinking of porting one of my themes or creating a new one just for it.

5. 

   adam
   Posted 15 Aug 2006 at 6:53 |
   

   unsleepable was a little more difficult than i think most would be. but then, that’s part of why i chose it. i don’t think i’ll be creating anything new until a) i find out what’s going on with thomas’ competition b) they go a release cycle without changing selectors. the changes they’ve made are good, i just don’t want to have to keep redoing things.

   wank said hers only took like ten minutes for renaming the selectors, and then a bit of bugfixing.

6. 

   snoogly
   Posted 15 Aug 2006 at 7:36 |
   

   Sorry if this is a daft question, but what would the advantages be in going for Sandbox + your skin, rather than just going for the original Unsleepable?

   Please don’t get me wrong – I am just trying to get this clear in my mind. K2 confuese me – and so does Sandbox, a little.

   

7. 

   adam
   Posted 15 Aug 2006 at 8:49 |
   

   it’s not daft. i was going to devote an entire post to explaining just that.

   1. sandbox doesn’t use any javascript on it’s own. nor does it use gravatars. this makes it load _a lot_ faster. original unsleepable actually doesn’t even use much of the massive amount of code in k2
   2. original unsleepable only uses widgets for the sidebar. this uses widgets for the bottom block as well.
   3. hAtom: chris messina explains that one the best.
   4. Proof of concept: this is more to show what’s possible with Sandbox than anything else.
8. 

   GAiL
   Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 2:11 |
   

   hmm… are you used to making your CSS structure from ground up? I guess then it would be expected to be a little bit more difficult if that’s the case. anyway, i think i’ll give it a try myself over the weekend. i don’t know, maybe i just wanted to jump on the bandwagon

9. 

   adam
   Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 2:26 |
   

   i usually build from the ground up, yes. that’s not what i did for unsleepable, though. unsleepable was a case of matching selector names.

   and then building the bottomblock from scratch, and borrowing the menu from this blog.

10. 

    mike
    Posted 28 Aug 2006 at 9:45 |
    

    Hello, I’m a newbie when it comes Wordpress. I really like this skin, really nice work

    I notice that you have a ‘photos’ section in the example screenshot. Is this a photos plugin for WordPress? if so I would be very grateful if you let me know where to get it, as i would love to implement the same on my wordpress blog.

    thanks again for a great skin.

    Mike

11. 

    adam
    Posted 28 Aug 2006 at 9:51 |
    

    The ‘Photos’ Section is delivered by FlickrRSS. version 3.0.3 is a widget, so it’s pretty easy to use. (same way i put flickr photos on the front page of this blog)

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