site redesign

Still in progress, but if anything is horribly broken please drop me a comment. (Unless you are using IE6, in which case you should be used to horribly broken things by now.)
I’m now using tags for internal organisation and categories for global tag traffic, which I’m aware is completely the wrong way round, and I’ll [...]

Castor

While sorting through my hard drive I found this ancient skin I’d tried to get to work with Classic when custom CSS was first introduced. It didn’t work then but it does now, thanks to the magic of

So, yeah, the base template is WordPress Classic rather than Sandbox. And in their infinite wisdom wordpress.com have [...]

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

previewdownload CSS
If you want to use this on your wordpress.com blog, enable Sandbox-10 and copy and paste the contents of the text file into the custom CSS box, selecting the ’start from scratch and just use this’ option. It’s a three-col layout disguised as a two-col one, so you’ll want widgets in both sidebars for [...]

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 [...]