Author Archives: that girl again

She is a girl. She is very much not staff.

PhotoWP for Sandbox

Everybody knows that wordpress.com lacks a photoblogging theme. To be fair, there’s not a vast selection available for wordpress.org either. I think most photographers realise there are other tools out there which do the job better. Nonetheless, we now have 3GB available for image storage and some people may wish to use it. Enter PhotoWP [...]

Diurnal

Never before have I wished so intensely for multiple file upload:

download diurnal stylesheet for wordpress.com

Yeah, I know the screenshot has a different layout to the actual skin. Blame IE6. There are a couple of minor differences between this and the contest version (hover image for global tag links and nicer dropdown menus) but the dynamic [...]

Picnic

To celebrate the availability of Sandbox 1.0, here is the wp.com edition of Picnic:

picnic.txt
Images are hosted for you, so all you need to do is copy and paste. I know it’s confusing to have two Sandboxes, but I’m tagging my styles with the theme they’re based on which will hopefully make things easier.
Now, on to [...]

The Blue Butterfly Layout

Well, there’s still no news on the Sandbox upgrade so we’re going to have to press ahead regardless. This isn’t perfect (redundant arrows on the prev/next links) but it will do for now.

thebluebutterflylayout.txt
There’s a full-size preview here. If you want to use this on your wordpress.com blog, enable Sandbox and copy and paste the contents [...]

Sandbox Design Competition

I’m hoping this’ll be as successful as last year’s Style Contest, and that Automattic will be as generous with their support as Six Apart were with theirs. (Matt has already thrown in $500 prize money, which is a good start, but a little linkage wouldn’t hurt.) I’m not worried about the two-month deadline from a [...]

Meadow

This design is about two or three years old now, but I am very fond of it nonetheless. Hence, I have ported it to Sandbox. You can preview it on the test blog, at least until I get bored and put something else up there.
If you’re on wordpress.com, pick your preferred column layout from [...]

baubles

Quick, simple festive stylesheet for Sandboxers wishing to decorate their blogs. If you’re on wordpress.com, pick your preferred layout from the Sandbox skins menu and copy and paste baubles.txt into your custom CSS box. If you’re hosting your own sandbox installation or want to host your own images, the zip is here.

Biology

This is another original design (well, ok, it’s another variation on one I did for livejournal) that’s been sitting around for a while now waiting to be uploaded. You can see a full-size version on the test blog, at least until I start testing other stuff out :). WordPress.com custom css users, cut-and-paste biology.txt into [...]

progress report

Of course there was the first paid upgrade, Custom CSS and the Sandbox theme. It was aimed at you more technical folks, since you have to be pretty savvy with CSS to do anything fun with it, but already over 350 blogs have added it.

This is not me cavilling at the lack of acknowledgement of [...]

Reflections

Continuing on the theme of PINK, today’s port is of Stacee Leung’s Reflections:

To be totally honest with you, that girl creeps me out a bit. She reminds me of that episode of Doctor Who where everyone’s faces get sucked into the telly. Nonetheless this is a nice, simple, personal journal kind of layout, and we [...]